Milestones: Dec. 18, 1964

Divorced. By Sue Lyon, 18, cine-nymphet (Lolitd) and teen tease (The Night of the Iguana): Hampton Fancher III, 26, sometime flamenco dancer, who was banned from the Iguana set for Lyonizing Sue; on grounds of mental cruelty; after ten months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. By Dorothy Malone, 39, $3,000-a-week star of Peyton Place, TV's serialized sexpose of small-town life: Jacques Bergerac, 38, French lawyer-actor previously married to Ginger Rogers; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Sam Cooke, 32, Negro rock-'n'-roll...

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