Milestones: Feb. 15, 1963

Born. To Washington State's Senator Henry Martin ("Scoop") Jackson, 50, the U.S. Senate's most eligible bachelor until his 1961 marriage, and Helen Hardin Jackson, 29: their first child, a daughter; in Washington, D.C.

Married. Tony Curtis, 37, senior citizen among Hollywood's young romantic leads, until recently paired with Janet Leigh in one of movieland's "perfect marriages"; and Christine Kaufmann, 18, wide-eyed German starlet, whom he met while filming Taras Bulba; in Las Vegas.

Divorced. By Ann Harding, 58, gracefully aging blonde cinemactress (The Girl of the Golden West): Werner Janssen, 62, world-traveling symphony conductor; on grounds of intolerable cruelty (she accused him of giving her an ulcer); after 26 years of marriage, no children; in Bridgeport, Conn.

Died. Abdul Karim Kassem, 48. Iraqi Premier who seized power in a coup d'état; reportedly in front of a firing squad, after another coup d'état; in Baghdad (see THE WORLD).

Died. Abd el Krim, 81, fiery Riff rebel against the Spanish and French in the 1920s; of a heart attack; in Cairo (see THE WORLD).

Died. Barnum Brown, 89, curator emeritus of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, a spirited scientist who spent a lifetime gathering more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed.

Died. Herbert Louis Samuel, 92, British statesman and philosopher. First Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, Liverpool, a lifelong Liberal who served his country in posts ranging from Home Secretary to Postmaster General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled the antagonistic Arabs and Jews with rare justice and creativity. Later, in such philosophical works as Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy, he used his same mediating skills in an attempt to reconcile the divergence of philosophy, science and religion.