Milestones, Mar. 3, 1941

Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash.

Married. Genevieve Garner, 18, only granddaughter of ex-Vice President John Nance Garner, onetime black-eyed queen of Virginia's Apple Blossom Festival; and John James Currie Jr., Panhandle ranching scion; as Cactus Jack, hampered slightly by recent dental alterations, beamed from the family pew; in Amarillo.

Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange, Ga.

Died. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 49, University of Toronto professor who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin, since the start of World War II had served as captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps; with three others, when a military plane crashed in Newfoundland.

Died. César Campinchi, 58, lean, volcanic Corsican, one of the great criminal lawyers of his time, Minister of the Marine in the last government of Republican France; after an operation; in Marseille. He unceasingly opposed the Munich policy, fled with Daladier and Mandel to North Africa when the Army collapsed last June, unlike them was never interned to be tried for treason.

Died. Dom José Telles da Gama, Marquis of Niza and Count of Vidigueira, 64, last direct descendant of the great Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama; in Lisbon.

Died. Lieut. Colonel Hermann Kriebel, 65, participant in Adolf Hitler's beerhall Putsch of 1923, onetime chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, member of Germany's 1919 Armistice Commission; in Munich. His farewell to the Allied Armistice Commission: "See you again in 20 years."

Left. By Evander Berry Wall, last of the Gay Nineties dandies, who died expatriate in Monte Carlo last May after spending millions, hobnobbing with royalty, playing poker with World War I generals, bummeling from casino to racecourse, writing his lavendered memoirs (Neither Pest nor Puritan): an estate "not exceeding $10,000."