Milestones, Apr. 4, 1960

Born. To Mickey Mantle, 28, New York Yankees sometime slugger, twice (1956 and 1957) the "Most Valuable Player" in the American League, and Merlyn Mantle, 27: their fourth child, fourth son; in Dallas. Name: Danny Merle. Weight: 7 Ibs. 4 oz.

Born. To Jose Ferrer, 48, Hollywood and Broadway actor and director, and Rosemary Clooney, 31, jukebox and screen songstress: their fifth child, third son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Raphael Francisco. Weight: 5 Ibs. 6 oz.

Married. Lance Reventlow, 24, only son of Barbara Hutton and her second husband, Denmark's Count Court von Haugwitz -Reventlow; and Hollywood Starlet Jill St. John, 19: he for the first time, she for the second; in San Francisco (see PEOPLE).

Married. Otto Preminger, 53, bagel-bald Hollywood producerdirector; and Brunette Patricia Hope Bryce, 29, one of the highest-paid U.S. fashion models; he for the third time, she for the second; in Haifa, Israel, where he is filming Leon Uris' Exodus.

Died. Thomas Chamales, 35, boisterous bestselling novelist (Never So Few, Go Naked in the World) who spent last Thanksgiving in jail for beating his wife, Songstress Helen O'Connell, and threatening to kill their two-year-old daughter; of asphyxiation when his cigarette set his apartment on fire; one day before his trial for assault, and two weeks before the publication of his new book. Forget That I Ever Lived; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. John Lardner, 47, eldest of Humorist Ring Lardner's four sons, war correspondent, sports columnist for Newsweek, television and occasional drama critic for The New Yorker, essayist and satirist (It Beats Working, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women), who published his first work—a poem on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth (" . . . both sultans of swat; one hits where other people are, the other where they're not")—when he was eleven, in Columnist Franklin P. Adams' "Conning Tower"; of a heart attack, while writing about F.P.A.'s death (see PRESS) ; in Manhattan.

Died. James J. Metcalfe, 53, German-born ex-FBI agent (1931-35) who helped gun down John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934, later joined the Chicago Times as a reporter, made a splash with his 1937 series exposing the German-American Bund; of an abdominal hemorrhage; in Dallas.