Milestones: May 16, 1969

Married. Dustin Hoffman, 31, the compellingly insecure antihero of The Graduate (TIME cover, Feb. 7); and Anne Byrne, 25, his frequent companion for three years (she for the second time); in a Reform Jewish ceremony attended by family and close friends; in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Died. Sir Osbert Sitwell, 76, fifth baronet, illustrious man of British letters, who with his equally famed sister, Dame Edith, and brother Sacheverell, devoted a lifetime to baiting the established ideas and figures of his age while celebrating the splendor of the past; of a heart at tack; in Montagnana,...

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