Milestones, Feb. 18, 1974

Born. To Anthony Perkins, 41, laconic star of Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, and co-author of The Last of Sheila, and Berinthia ("Berry") Berenson, 25, a freelance photographer and granddaughter of Paris Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Osgood Robert.

—Died. Arline Judge, 61, Hollywood glamour girl of the 1930s and '40s (One in a Million, Lookin' for Trouble), who had almost as many marriages as movies to her credit; of an apparent stroke; in West Hollywood. Among Judge's seven husbands were Film Director Wesley Ruggles, Tin Millionaire Dan Topping, and later his brother Bob.

—Died. Joseph F. Reilly, 67, who in 32 years with the American Stock Exchange (formerly the New York Curb Market) rose from page boy in 1927 to chairman of the board of governors (1960-62); of cancer; in Fort Myers, Fla.

—Died. Donald C. McGraw, 76,who joined his father's publishing company in 1919, eventually became McGraw-Hill's president, board chairman and executive committee chairman, and during the past two decades oversaw the company's growth in annual revenues from $67 million to $470 million; in Boynton Beach, Fla.

—Died. Satyendranath Bose, 80, Indian physicist who, though he had never met Albert Einstein, collaborated by mail in 1924-25 on the Bose-Einstein Theory, a cornerstone in the development of modern quantum physics; in Calcutta.

—Died. Raymond A. Wheeler, 88, former U.S. Army Chief of Engineers; in Washington, D.C. A West Point graduate, Wheeler began his career during construction of the Panama Canal in 1911, and in the next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian war and, at age 71, directed a multinational salvage crew that within four months cleared the Suez Canal of more than 40 sunken ships.

— Died. Abigail Adams Homans, 94, feisty, self-assertive grande dame of the Boston Adams family (which produced U.S. Presidents John and John Quincy) and author of the bestselling 1966 autobiography Education by Uncles; in Boston.

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