Milestones: Jun. 5, 1964

Born. To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 55, Governor of New York, and Margaretta Filler Murphy Rockefeller, 37, a son, their first child (his sixth, her fifth); in Manhattan. Name: Nelson Jr.

Died. Wilder Hobson, 59, onetime staff member at TIME, FORTUNE, Harper's Bazaar and, for the last ten years, at Newsweek, author of a history of American jazz and an amateur trombonist; of gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Princeton, N.J.

Died. Ted Collins, 64, Kate Smith's manager and business partner for 34 years, a onetime phonograph-record salesman who in 1929 heard the unknown Kate sing a few...

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