Milestones, Jun. 22, 1953

Married. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 21, socialite millionheiress granddaughter of the late F.D.R.; and Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, pianist son of an immigrant Manhattan barber; in a small church ceremony on New York's lower East Side (see NEWS IN PICTURES).

Divorced. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, Britain's contender for the world middleweight championship; by Mary Theresa Turpin, 26; after six years of marriage, one son; in Leamington, England.

Died. Michel Licht, 59, Russia-born Yiddish poet who translated the works of his contemporaries (T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound); of a heart attack; in New York...

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