Milestones: Nov. 29, 1963

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Born. To Charlayne Hunter Stovall, 22, who last spring became the first Negro woman to graduate from the University of Georgia; and Walter Stovall, 25, a white fellow student at Georgia, now a reporter for the Bergen (N.J.) Evening Record, whom she married "somewhere in the South" in March, again in Detroit in June (in case the first ceremony was invalid under Southern antimiscegenation laws): a daughter; in Manhattan.

Married. Helga Sandburg, 45, novelist and children's author (Joel and the Wild Geese), youngest daughter of the famed poet; and Dr. George Crile Jr., 56, Cleveland surgeon and cancer specialist; she for the third, he for the second time; in a highly informal ceremony conducted by her 85-year-old father over the dining room table at his Flat Rock, N.C., home, followed by a civil marriage in Washington. Carl's wedding presents: one donkey, named Picco, three goats, named Rama, Rowan, and Fleur.

Marriage Revealed. Marion Harper Jr., 47, president of Interpublic, Inc., world's largest advertising complex (1963 billings: some $500 million); and Valerie Feit, 29, Interpublic fashion consultant; he for the second time; in Miami, on Nov. 8.

Died. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 46, President of the United States; by assassination; in Dallas (see THE NATION).

Died. Donald Dean Summerville, 48, mayor of Toronto, a onetime R.C.A.F. pilot who won an upset victory last December over a longtime incumbent, in less than a year made a strong start at cutting civic waste and featherbedding; of a heart attack suffered while tending goal in an exhibition hockey match to raise funds for victims of the recent Italian dam disaster; in Toronto.

Died. Carmen Amaya, 50, Spanish flamenco dancer, a volcanic Catalan gypsy whose machine-gun castanets, stomps, swirls and fiercely elegant cadenzas won her star billing on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s and '40s, and earned for her up to $14,000 a week, which she largely lavished upon Romany schools and charities, leading Spanish gypsies to call her "our good mother"; of chronic kidney disease; in Bagur, Spain.

Died. Hector Escobosa, 56, president since 1951 of I. Magnin & Co.'s high-style women's stores in San Francisco and 15 other Western cities, who, instead of copying European fashions, imported them at realistic prices, turned his stores into the best in the West; of a heart attack; in Williamsburg, Va.

Died. Edward Joseph ("Knocko") McCormack, 67, Massachusetts politician, brother of U.S. House Speaker John McCormack, the burly (275 lbs.) younger son of Irish immigrants who for two decades dispensed political favors and jobs from his South Boston saloon, stage-managed family campaigns but failed last year to help his son Edward Jr. win the Democratic Senatorial nomination from Teddy; of cancer; in Boston.