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Milestones Apr. 11, 1994

DIED. BILL TRAVERS, 72; actor; in his sleep; in Dorking, England, south of * London. A leading British film actor who first won fame as the titular hammer- throwing phenom in 1955's Wee Geordie, Travers is best known in this country for Born Free (1966), in which he played George Adamson, the real-life game warden who oversaw the raising of Elsa the famous lioness.

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