Milestones: Jul. 3, 1964

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Married. Margaret Ann Goldwater, 20, younger of Barry's two girls; and Richard Arlen Holt, 26, junior executive with California's Wilshire Oil Co.; at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Phoenix.

Married. Peter Duchin, 26, society bandleader, who inherited the low-keyed piano style and the high-toned following of his late father, Eddy Duchin; and Cheray Zauderer, 23, Manhattan socialite; she for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Stirling Moss, 34, peerless driver of racing cars until his near-fatal crack-up in 1962; and Elaine Barbarino, 24, pretty brunette daughter of a New York contractor, Moss's constant companion and helpmate since the accident; both for the second time; in Hertfordshire, England.

Married. Ethel Merman, 54, Broadway's Gypsy; and Ernest Borgnine, 47, Hollywood's Marty; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Hollywood.

Married. Sir Frank Packer, 57, Australian newspaper tycoon, owner of Gretel, unsuccessful 1962 challenger for the America's Cup; and Florence Porges, 49, Australian socialite; both for the second time; in London.

Died. Frank Scully, 72, author and columnist, who lost a leg to osteomyelitis and a lung to tuberculosis but made the most of his 30 years in and out of hospitals by writing Fun in Bed, Bedside Manna and Just What the Doctor Ordered, three bestsellers of the '30s that combined puzzles, good-humored jokes and vignettes for bedsore patients; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif.

Died. John Donald Ferguson, 74, editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1943 to 1961, who, with its late publisher Harry Grant, built the Journal into one of the Midwest's biggest, richest and most respected papers; of head injuries sustained in a fall; in Milwaukee. Ferguson believed that a paper should be responsible for every word it prints—and so he banned all syndicated columnists, snorting that they print "the yakety-yak that fills the room after the fourth dry martini."

Died. Clarence Frederick Lea, 89, longtime (1916-1948) Democratic Congressman from northern California, an ardent believer in Government regulation of industry, who co-authored bills expanding the Pure Food and Drug Act and establishing the Civil Aeronautics Authority, won his greatest success in 1946 with a law, upheld by the Supreme Court, curbing Music Union Czar James C. Petrillo and his outrageously featherbedding musicians; in Santa Rosa, Calif.