MILESTONES

Married. Shirlay Ann Grau, 26, New Orleans writer of short stories (The Black Prince) acclaimed for their insight into the lives of Southerners, Negro and white; and James Kern Feibleman, 51, chairman of the department of philosophy at Tulane University's College of Arts aad Sciences, she for the first time, he for the second; in New York City.

Marriage Revealed. Sheree North (real name: Shirley Bethel), 22, torso-twirling actress of stage (Hazel Flagg) and screen (How to Be Very, Very Popular), onetime cootch dancer; and Budd (John) Freeman, 38, saxophonist-turned-music publisher ; she for the second time, he for the first; on Feb. 20, in Quartzsite, Ariz.

Died. Suzan Ball, 21, TV and cinemactress (Chief Crazy Horse); of a recurrence of the cancer that caused the amputation of her right leg in 1954; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Robert Charles Francis, 25, cinemactor (lovelorn Ensign Willie Keith in The Caine Mutiny); in the crash of a one-engined Beechcraft Bonanza he was learning to fly; in Burbank, Calif.

Died. Carmen Miranda, 41, Portuguese-born, Brazilian-bred stage and screen songstress, famed for her shivering hips, bare-midriffed dances and fruit-compote headgear; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Michael J. McDermott, 61, a State Department press spokesman (1924-53) under eight Secretaries of State, from Frank B. Kellogg to John Foster Dulles, Ambassador to El Salvador (1953-55); of a heart ailment; in Washington.

Died. Wallace Stevens, 75, much-honored American poet (1955 Pulitzer Prize, two-time winner of the National Book Awards), vice president of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co.; of cancer; in Hartford, Conn, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. William John Cameron, 76, longtime spokesman (1918-46) for the late Henry Ford, onetime editor (1920-28) of Ford's Dearborn Independent, assistant pastor of the Oakland Lakeside Unity Temple since 1946; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. Trained for the ministry, Cameron held a Presbyterian pastorate in Brooklyn, Mich, at 19. He expounded Ford's conservative opinions to millions of radio listeners on the Ford Hour (1934-42), took responsibility in a million-dollar libel suit brought against Ford in 1927 by a Jewish businessman for anti-Semitic articles, for which Ford, as part of an out-of-court settlement, had to make public apology. Fifteen years later, Cameron recanted in a radio speech: "AntiSemitism is the negation of humanity, intelligence and Christianity."

Died. Crown Prince Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, 86, Pretender to the Bavarian throne, Field Marshal of the Kaiser's Sixth Army in World War I, descendant of the British House of Stuart; of a heart ailment; at Leustetten Castle, Germany. Prince Rupprecht never formally renounced his claim to the throne of the House of Wittelsbach, rulers of Bavaria for 738 years, until the founding of the German republic after World War I. Annual public celebrations of his birthday, banned by Hitler, were resumed by Bavarians in 1953; last year's, marking his 85th, lasted a rousing ten days.

Died. Lorinda Ferguson Bailey, 109, Iowa farm woman who left 341 descendants (six living children, 41 grandchildren, 135 great-grandchildren, 138 great-greatgrandchildren, 21 great-great-great-grandchildren); in Marion, Iowa.

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