Milestones: Jul. 24, 1964

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Born. To King Simeon II, 27, King of Bulgaria deposed by the Communists, and Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, 28, toast of Madrid society: their second son; in Madrid.

Born. To Daniel Ken Inouye, 39, Democratic Senator from Hawaii, and Margaret Inouye, 40: their first child (after 15 years of marriage), a son; in Washington.

Married. Dr. Samuel Sheppard, 40, onetime Cleveland osteopath just released from the Ohio Penitentiary after serving almost ten years of a life sentence for the bludgeon-slaying of his wife; and Ariane Tebbenjohanns, 35, platinum-blonde German divorcée, his pen-pal fiancee since January 1963; both for the second time; in Chicago (see THE LAW).

Died. Bradford Smith, 55, historian and biographer, who in nine impressively documented books (Bradford of Plymouth, Captain John Smith) retraced the paths of early American history and came to some surprising conclusions: that William Bradford (an ancestor) had aimed the Mayflower at New England, not Virginia, as historians supposed, and that Captain John Smith (no kin) was indeed saved by Pocahontas, a tale long suspected as too tall to be true; of cancer; in Shaftsbury, Vt.

Died. Joel Brand, 58, Eichmann's emissary to the Allies in 1944 to negotiate the infamous 1,000,000-Jews-for-10,000-trucks proposal, a Hungarian Jew who told his Blut-für-Waren tale to Zionist and British leaders, but met with suspicion, arrest and failure, spent the rest of his life "carrying 1,000,000 Jews on my back"; of a heart attack; in Bad Kissingen, Germany.

Died. Luis Batlle Berres, 66, former President of Uruguay (1947-50, 1954-56), longtime leader of the Colorado Party, who followed the mildly socialistic course of his uncle, José Batlle y Ordóñez, founder of Uruguay's democracy, by sparing citizens from income taxes (since introduced), taking control of the country's major industry (meat packing), and maintaining an extreme anticlericalism (Christmas is called Family Day); of a stroke; in Montevideo.

Died. Hussein Ala, 81, Court Minister of Iran since 1957, one of the Shah's oldest and ablest advisers, a reform-minded, pro-West politician who won worldwide notice in March 1946 when he stood before the U.N. Security Council and called attention to the illegal Russian occupation of Iran's Azerbaijan Province, raised such a storm that the Reds withdrew in the face of world opinion; of pneumonia; in Teheran.