Milestones

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daniel Levy, Ellin Martens, Julie Rawe, Chris Taylor, Owen Thomas and Josh Tyrangiel

ENGAGED. CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, 29, Teutonic supermodel; and Tim Jeffries, 37, London art gallery owner. She was formerly engaged to magician David Copperfield; Jeffries was married to onetime Prince Andrew girlfriend Koo Stark.

RELEASED. SONG YONGYI, 50, U.S.-based scholar arrested in China in August and later charged with "the purchase and illegal provision of intelligence to foreigners.'' Song, a librarian at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., had been collecting documents on the Cultural Revolution.

DIED. BOB SQUIER, 65, Democratic political consultant; in Millwood, Va. Squier's clients included Hubert H. Humphrey and Jimmy Carter, and his masterly political ads helped ensure Clinton's 1996 re-election (see Eulogy).

DIED. DON BUDGE, 84, tennis player who in 1938 became the first to win all four Grand Slam events in a single year, a feat matched by only four players since; in Scranton, Pa. One of the sport's greatest figures, the tall, redheaded Budge pioneered the power game that prevails today, and is considered the first to have used the backhand as an attack stroke.

DIED. ED CLARK, 88, LIFE photographer and candid chronicler of such Presidents as Truman and Kennedy; in Sarasota, Fla. He is best remembered for a 1945 picture of a grief-stricken bandsman playing an accordion at a train station following the death of Franklin Roosevelt.

DIED. CRAIG CLAIBORNE, 79, New York Times food editor from 1957 to 1986, the first male to hold that post; in New York City. Raised in Mississippi on his mother's biscuits and Creole dishes and trained in classical French cuisine, Claiborne established a widely influential rating system in his reviews and wrote with flair about master chefs, airline meals and such capers as a $4,000 dinner in Paris. His publications include the hugely successful New York Times Cook Book.

DIED. EMORY O. CUNNINGHAM, 78, SOUTHERN LIVING founder; in Birmingham, Ala. Dissatisfied with mainstream magazines' portrayal of the South as tainted by poverty and racial divisions, he founded SOUTHERN LIVING in 1966 to showcase the region's graceful qualities. In 1985 he sold the magazine's parent company, Southern Progress Corp., to Time Inc. for $480 million.