Milestones, Apr. 14, 1980

MARRIED. Vincente Minnelli, 76, Academy Award-winning director (Gigi, 1958) and father, by a previous marriage to the late Judy Garland, of Entertainer Liza Minnelli; and his longtime companion, Lee Anderson, fiftyish, British-born publicist and Hollywood socialite; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

DIED. James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens, 66, track-and-field legend who, by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, dashed Adolf Hitler's dreams of demonstrating Aryan supremacy; of lung cancer; in Tucson (see SPORT).

DIED. Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, 74, mood-music maestro whose lush, homogenized...

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