Milestones: Aug. 10, 1962

Divorced. By Millie Perkins, 24, slim, hazel-eyed Hollywood actress, who scored a hit three years ago in The Diary of Anne Frank: Dean Stockwell, 26, stage (Compulsion) and screen (Sons and Lovers) actor; after two years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Santa Monica.

Died. Edgar H. Dixon, 57, president of the $1 billion Middle South Utilities .Inc., and the man in the eye of the 1955 Dixon-Yates storm over a $107 million contract to supply private power in the Tennessee Valley Authority area; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. After advocates of public power forced a...

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