Milestones: Jun. 2, 1961

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Married. Princess Birgitta, 24, handsome, 6-ft. blonde gymnastics teacher, a granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf; and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, 6-ft. 2-in. candidate for a doctorate in archaeology at the University of Munich; in a civil ceremony in Stockholm's royal palace, followed by Roman Catholic rites in Sigmaringen, Germany.

Married. King Hussein of Jordan, 25, and Toni Avril Gardiner, 20; he for the second time, she for the first; in Amman, Jordan (see THE WORLD).

Died. Pierre-Gauthier Malraux, 21, Paris University political science student, and Vincent Malraux, 17, Lycée student in Paris, sons of French novelist, art expert and Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux and his late second wife, Novelist Josette Clotis; when a car driven by the older brother struck a tree on their way back to Paris after a Mediterranean holiday; near Dijon.

Died. Joan Davis, 48, long-legged, gravel-voiced comedienne, star of radio's The Joan Davis Show and TV's / Married Joan series; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif.

Died. The Duchess of Marlborough (née the Hon. Mary Cadogan), 61, daughter of an ancient Welsh house, wife of the tenth Duke of Marlborough, frequent hostess to Britain's royal family as mistress of stately Blenheim Palace, birthplace of her cousin by marriage, Sir Winston Churchill; after a long illness of an undisclosed nature; in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England.

Died. Thomas Edward Murray, 69, outspoken Democratic member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-57), who upheld the AEC's 4-1 "no confidence" vote against Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954, fought for Government development of atomic power plants, production of smaller nuclear weapons, cessation of hydrogen bomb tests, but last year urged the U.S. to resume underground tests to create a relatively "clean" neutron bomb as a "third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray was the son of a millionaire engineering magnate, held 200 electrical and welding patents, was receiver for New York City's bankrupt Interborough Rapid Transit Co. for eight years, headed the Murray Manufacturing Co. from 1939 until he joined AEC.

Died. Cheng-ting T. Wang, 79, dapper Chinese statesman, high-ranking Rotarian, wealthy cotton and coal baron, polished diplomat, Y.M.C.A. official, who returned from Yale with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1911 to help topple the Manchu dynasts, served the struggling Republic of China as Foreign Minister three times between 1922 and 1931, Prime Minister for a month in 1922, Ambassador to the U.S. in 1937 and 1938, moved to Hong Kong after World War II because China was being "enslaved by Communism"; of cancer; in Hong Kong.

Died. David Lynn, 87, the Federal Government's Capitol architect from 1923 to 1954, who did no designing himself but supervised everything from tidying up between sessions of Congress to refurbishing of the House and Senate Chambers and construction of the Supreme Court Building; of arteriosclerosis; in Washington, D.C.