Milestones

Engaged. Lawrence M. Noble, voted "best all-around athlete" and "handsomest man" in the present, senior class at Yale College; to Miss Louise McLanahan of New Haven, Conn.

Married. Miserosetta Macini, daughter of the only sister of Premier Benito Mussolini;* to Pier Giovanni Ricci, Fascist officer; in Rome. He (Benito Mussolini) acted as witness, gave her a ruby bracelet.

Married. Miss Nancy Carr of Atlanta. Ga., granddaughter of the late General Julian S. Carr (one-third owner of the Bull Durham Tobacco Co. before it merged with the American Tobacco Co.), and step-daughter of Editor Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution (daily) ; to one Edward Friendly Rosenbaum of Salt Lake City, Utah; suddenly, in Manhattan; thereby terminating her engagement (TIME, April 25) to one William Thomas Healey of Princeton University.

Married. Helen Wainwright, 19, able swimmer, onetime (1922) national champion diver; to Leonard Holland, theatre organist; in Dallas, Tex.

Married. Ellsworth M. Statler, 63, famed hotel man; s to Alice Seidler, 34, his secretary since 1916; privately, in Manhattan. The first Mrs. Statler died in 1925.

Died. Charles W. Svensson, painter, uncle of Cinemactress Gloria Swanson; in Manhattan, in a fire in his studio from which, frantic, he was trying to rescue his portraits of his famed niece.

Died. John Curtis, 59, impresario, author, founder of the Philadelphia Operatic Society, an early producer of opera in English in the U. S.; of bronchitis; at Narbeth, Pa.

Died. Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, 64, onetime (1899-1911) U. S. Senator from Indiana; of heart disease; in Indianapolis.

Died. Major William E. Cochran, 74, onetime Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed by him.

*He has one brother. sBuffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Boston, New York (Hotel Pennsylvania).