Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, Daniel Levy, Michele Orecklin and Flora Tartakovsky

MARRIED. PRINCESS CAROLINE OF MONACO, 42, and PRINCE ERNST AUGUST OF HANOVER, 44, a cousin of the Windsors; at a private civil ceremony on her birthday; in Monaco. The wedding is his second and her third (she was divorced in 1980 and widowed in 1990). Caroline first met the German prince when she was in high school.

EXPECTING. CINDY CRAWFORD, 31, All-American cover girl; with nightclub impresario Rande Gerber, 36, whom she married last spring. The Gerber baby is due in June.

AILING. EVEL KNIEVEL, 60, motorcycle daredevil; awaiting a liver transplant owing to the effects of hepatitis C; in Tampa, Fla. Knievel believes he contracted the disease during one of 14 operations to repair the 35 broken bones and other injuries caused by his stunts.

DIED. SUSAN STRASBERG, 60, actress and buddy of Marilyn Monroe's; of cancer; in New York City. The daughter of acting teacher Lee Strasberg, she debuted on Broadway in 1955 as Anne Frank and appeared in two dozen films, including Stage Struck and Picnic.

DIED. LUCILLE KALLEN, 76, comedy writer for Your Show of Shows; in Ardsley, N.Y. Kallen was the only woman writer for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's classic 1950s show, where she worked with such comics as Carl Reiner and Woody Allen. Reiner, who later created The Dick Van Dyke Show, based the character Sally Rogers partly on Kallen.

DIED. JAY PRITZKER, 76, billionaire philanthropist and founder of the Hyatt hotel chain; in Chicago. In 1979 he established the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is now considered the most prestigious honor in the field.

DIED. EUGENE S. PULLIAM, 84, publisher of the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News; in Indianapolis, Ind. During a 64-year career in which he started as a paper boy, Pulliam became a strong defender of freedom of the press and attacked smear tactics used by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

DIED. FRANCES GODOWSKY, 92, painter and younger sister of George and Ira Gershwin; in New York City. Godowsky worked as a child dancer, bringing home $40 a week (her brothers made $15 on Tin Pan Alley). In 1930 she married Leopold Godowsky Jr., a co-creator of Kodachrome, and helped him test the film by posing in colored hats and dresses.