Milestones: May 14, 1965

Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 25, golfing great, last year's leading P.G.A. money winner ($113,284) and this year's Masters champ, and Barbara Jean Bash Nicklaus, 25: their third child, first daughter; in Columbus.

Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey.

Died. Eileen Keliher Jeffers Yager, 61, shy, retiring adopted daughter of William M. Jeffers, onetime...