MILESTONES

DIED. LADY CAROLINE BLACKWOOD, 64, striking Anglo-Irish aristocrat known for her witty writing and her high-profile, high-culture marriages to painter Lucian Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz and poet--drinking buddy Robert Lowell; of cancer; in Manhattan. DIED. MCLEAN STEVENSON, 66, actor; of a heart attack; in Tarzana, California. Stevenson starred in the first three seasons of the '70s television hit M*A*S*H as Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake, a fumbling fisherman-out-of-water who ruled over the blood and irony of an Army hospital during the Korean War.

DIED. CHARLIE CONERLY, 74, star quarterback for the New York Giants during their '50s heyday; following heart attacks; in Memphis, Tennessee. His team touchdown-pass record (173) stood for 30 years.

DIED. MARTIN BALSAM, 76, actor; in Rome. Born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of a sportswear salesman, Balsam went from the career-minting Actors Studio to live '50s TV to the movies, where he became a star portraying men who would never be stars. He was an uncertain juror in Twelve Angry Men (1957); a doomed detective in Psycho (1960); a Navy doctor utterly at sea in the moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From 1979 to 1981 he played Carroll O'Connor's business partner in an All in the Family spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place.

DIED. EDMUND G. ("PAT") BROWN SR., 90, Governor of California from 1959-67; in Beverly Hills. As Governor, Brown expanded California's university system and established the state's first commission to ensure equal-employment opportunities. He was only the second Democrat to be elected to the post this century; his son Edmund ("Jerry") Brown Jr. was the third.