Milestones: Jan. 15, 1965

Married. Frances Mary Nimitz, 24, granddaughter of Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander and hero of the Pacific theater in World War II; and Edwin Gordon Johns, 28, Manhattan adman; in New Canaan, Conn.

Married. Arthur Koestler, 59, Hungarian-born author, once a Communist, later a supreme critic (Darkness at Noon); and Cynthia Koestler, 37, his South African-born secretary, who changed her name from Paterson to Koestler in a legal action a year ago in London; he for the third time, she for the second; by a city clerk in Manhattan.

Died. George Washington Oakes, 55, one of...

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