Milestones, Jan. 17, 1972

Divorced. Jim Brown, 35, who followed a brilliant football career with the Cleveland Browns by tackling movie acting in such rousers as The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles; by Sue Brown, 35; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Cleveland.

Died. John Berryman, 57, poet; by leaping from a bridge near the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus, where he taught. Berryman was a consummate verbal technician who had a deep love affair with the blowziest aspects of 20th century popular culture. Robert Lowell said that Berryman's "universe is more tearful and funny than...

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