Milestones: Jul. 31, 1964

Born. To Tony Curtis, 39, kiss-curled cinemactor (Captain Newman, M.D.), and Christine Kaufmann, 19, honey-haired German-born starlet (Taras Bulba): their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.

Married. Kim Stanley, 39, Broadway actress (The Three Sisters); and Joseph Siegel, 35, her lawyer, the man who indulges Kim by insisting on stage contracts of no longer than nine months ("After that," she claims, "it sounds like a recording to me"); she for the fourth time; in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

Married. Maurice Herzog, 45, leader of the 1950 conquest of the Himalayas' 26,502-ft. Mount Annapurna, now director of De Gaulle's physical fitness program; and Countess Maríe Pierre de Cossé-Brissac, 39, French noblewoman; he for the first time; she for the second; in Paris.

Divorced. George Capron, 79, Los Angeles real estate tycoon (860 acres on Laguna Beach); by Ednah Race Capron, 74, who until now ran his household on a budget of $300 a month; on grounds of cruelty (he denied her a nurse last year when she broke her leg); after 55 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: half his fortune, or $16 million, highest award in California history.

Died. Herb Sheldon, 51, impresario of radio and TV kiddie shows, who forswore the clownish costumes and childish twaddle of his colleagues, instead gave pre-teen audiences the scoop about building muscles (spinach helps), crossing streets and watching too much TV, becoming one of NBC's highest-paid stars at $250,000 a year in the 1950s; of a heart attack; in Manhasset, N.Y.

Died. Harry Grossinger, 76, founder and proprietor of New York State's famed Catskill resort, who for 50 years quietly attended to the details while his wife Jennie established herself as one of the country's best-known hostesses, seeing their original seven-room guest cottage grow into a $15 million investment with so much of everything (ski tows, heated pools, 18-hole course, a staff of 900 employees) that the 660 rooms were generally full winter and summer; of an acute coronary thrombosis; in Liberty, N.Y.

Died. Stella Stagg, 89, wife of Football Patriarch Amos Alonzo Stagg, 101, who married Stagg in his second year as the University of Chicago's coach, herself became a leading female authority on the game by attending his every scrimmage and chalk talk, diagramming his plays and exercising an uncanny eye for ferreting out the opposition's weaknesses; of cancer; in Stockton, Calif.