Milestones: Mar. 12, 1965

Born. To John Osborne, 35, Britain's still somewhat Angry Young Man (Look Back in Anger, Luther); and Penelope Conner Osborne, 31, former London film critic: their first child, a daughter; in London.

Married. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 82, crusty old man of Scottish letters (96 biographies, plays, essays and novels, among them Tight Little Island); and Lilian Macsween, 46, spinster sister of his late wife; he for the third time; in Edinburgh.

Died. Willard Motley, 52, chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin...

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