Engaged. Lydia Archbold, next richest (Ailsa Mellon was the richest) Washington society girl; to Elliott Strauss, $2,000 a year ensign-son of Rear Admiral Joseph R. Strauss.

Miss Archbold, who was presented to society last winter at a dance attended by John Coolidge, son of the President, is a granddaughter of onetime President John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company who once shared profits with John D. Rockefeller.

Engaged. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime (1916) Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; to Frau Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz. General Ludendorff was recently divorced by his wife whom he charged with smoking too many cigarets; she charged cruelty and misconduct with Dr. von Kemnitz (TIME, July 19th).

Married. Clara Louise Ottis, niece of Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg; to one Bruce Burnham Harris of Champaign, Ill.; at St. Paul, Minn.

Married. Mrs. Irene Gibson Post, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson and niece of Viscountess Astor; to John J. Emery of Cincinnati; at Dark Harbor, Me. Mrs. Post divorced her husband, George B. Post, last March in Paris.

Died. Lieut. Cyrus K. Bettis, 33, crack army airman and winner of last year's Pulitzer Speed Trophy; at Washington, D. C., of spinal meningitis. Lieutenant Bettis' fatal illness was due to inflammation of the nerve sheaths due to injuries received a fortnight ago when his plane crashed against a mountain near Lewistown, Pa. in a fog (TIME, Sept. 6).

Died. Charles Hopkins Clark, 77, famed editor of the Hartford Courant and Associated Press director; at Hartford, Conn. Mr. Clark once refused his choice of an ambassadorship or a Cabinet post under President Taft.

Died. Dr. E. J. Lewis, 78, father of famed Novelist Sinclair Lewis; at Sauk Center, Minn.

Author Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, Main Street, the scene of which was "Gopher Prairie" (Sauk Center). In the book was a physician.

Died. George F. Babbitt, 78, Harvard '72, onetime Boston health commissioner and editorial writer for the Boston Herald, at North Scituate, Mass.

Died. Zalophus ("Buster") Californianus, 22, dean of sea-lions and headliner of the Battery Park Aquarium; in Manhattan, of coryza.