Milestones: Aug. 31, 1962

Born. To Actor David Nelson, 25, Ozzie and Harriet's elder son, and June Blair Nelson, 23, who joined the family TV program in 1960 as David's girl friend: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica.

Divorced. Arnold Eric Sevareid, 49, quick-witted CBS news analyst and liberal New York Post columnist; by Lois Finger Sevareid, 51; on grounds of desertion, after nearly 28 years of marriage, two children; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Rosemary Carr Benet, 64. widow of Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, whom she met in Paris in 1920 when he was an impecunious young...

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