Milestones, Sep. 3, 1973

Married. Kris Kristofferson, 36, country music composer (Me & Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down), singer, movie actor (Cisco Pike, Blume in Love) and former Rhodes scholar; and Rita Coolidge, 28, smoky-voiced blues singer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Malibu, Calif.

Divorced. John W. Warner, 46, Secretary of the Navy since 1972 and a landed squire in Virginia's fox-hunting set; by Catherine Mellon Warner, 36, daughter of the Pittsburgh philanthropist and near billionaire Paul Mellon; after 16 years of marriage, three children; in Fairfield, Idaho.

Died. Paul Williams,...

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