Born. To Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Republican Nominee for U. S. Representative from (New York; a nine-pound granddaughter, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John T. Pratt Jr.

Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne Gibson of Bedford, N. Y., a nine-pound son. The child will be named for his grandfather, Illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. The child's maternal grandfather was the late Financier Moses Taylor.

Engaged. Prince Christopher of Greece, widower of the former Mrs. W. B. Leeds of Cleveland; and Princess Francoise II, daughter of the Due de Guise, pretender to the throne of France.

Engaged. John Robert Lawson Johnston, London merchant who is reputedly worth $40,000,000, onetime husband of Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim; and Betty McCormick, salesgirl & clothes model of Albany, N. Y.

Engaged. Virginia Waddill Shepherd, stepdaughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen) of Richmond, Va.; and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer.

Married. Mary Elizabeth Rickard, daughter of Edgar Rickard, Manhattan mining engineer who assisted Nominee Hoover in wartime food administrating; to Reginald Dorsey Mohun of Manhattan; in New Canaan, Conn. To the wedding went Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, Son Allan Henry Hoover.

Married. David S. Ludlum, 25, nephew of President John A. Hartford of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; to Marian Hamilton, 21, Seattle dancer in George M. Cohan's comedy Billie. Her published photograph exhibits her sitting on a table edge, long slim legs pendant, a white fur coat skilfully covering her nudity.

Married. Frederick Beck Patterson, cash register tycoon of Dayton, Ohio; and Mrs. Armenal Wood Gorman, former wife of E. H. Barney-Gorman, Dayton realtor; in Ipswich, Mass. Mr. Patterson was recently divorced by his first wife (TIME, Oct. 22).

Married. Henry Belin du Pont, assistant treasurer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours (explosives), of Wilmington, Del.; to Margaret Lewis, daughter of Perry J. Lewis, Texas barrister; in San Antonio.

Married. Katharine Van Rensselaer Strong of New Brunswick, N. J., descendant of Van Rensselaer patroons & Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence; to Morrison Ulman, Manhattan scion; in New Brunswick.

Married. Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker of Manhattan & Baltimore, recently divorced wife of Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan & cosmopolite (TIME, Oct. 15); to Charles Minot Amory of Boston & Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Married. Marcel William Stengel, 50, of Manhattan, painter, son of Marcella Sembrich, famed soprano; and Juliette de Coppet, 45, daughter of the late Financier Edward J. de Coppet who founded the famed Flonzaley quartet; in Greenwich, Conn.

Sued for Divorce. Lou Tellegen, famed Graeco-Dutch actor, onetime leading man for the late Sarah Bernhardt, one-time husband of Soprano Geraldine Farrar; by Mrs. Isabel Craven Tellegen, onetime Tennessee schoolgirl; in Los Angeles.

Sued for Divorce. Lady Inverclyde (Olive Sylvia Sainsbury), daughter of Arthur Sainsbury, London chain grocery store tycoon; by Lord Inverclyde (John Alan Burns), 31, opulent nobleman of London.

Divorced. David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, nth Earl of Northesk, of London; by Jessica Brown, onetime Ziegfeld Follies showgirl.

Inaugurated. The Rev. William Coleman Nevils, onetime Dean, Chancellor, as President of Georgetown University.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick William Hinitt, 61, three times a college president (Parsons, Iowa--1900-04; Centre, Ky.-- 1904-15; Washington & Jefferson, Pa.-- 1915-18); after a short illness; at his Presbyterian rectory in Indiana, Pa. Died. W. L. Velie, 62, automobile & aircraft manufacturer; after a short illness; in Moline, 111.

Died. George Barr McCutcheon, 62, famed romancer, author of the Graustark saga; of heart disease; at luncheon with his friends in Manhattan.

Died. Brig. Gen. John Rea McQuigg, 62, Cleveland banker-lawyer, onetime Commander of the American Legion (1925); after a year's illness; in Cleveland.

Died. Clayton Darius Lee, 62, veteran newsman, who helped found the United Press in 1907, who served it as president for six years; after four years illness; in Maplewood, N. J.

Died. Dr. Albert Schneider, 65, able scientist & criminologist of Portland, Ore.; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Portland. Dr. Schneider devised an apparatus for registering brain reactions known as the lie detector.

Died. Edgar Wallace Peck, 69, Manhattan retail hosiery tycoon (Peck & Peck); in Manhattan. A distrusting landlord of the Peck brothers used to collect rent every 24 hours. The firm now owns 19 prospering shops in the U. S.

Died. Charles Arnette Towne, 70, one-time U. S. Senator from New York; of pneumonia, contracted while stump-speaking for Nominees Smith & Robinson; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Gaetano Cardinal di Lai, 75, after a year and half of illness initiated by pneumonia. He was long a part of the very core of Roman Catholic Church administration and jurisdiction--as secretary of the Consistorial Congregation, as one of the 12 members of the Rota (Church supreme court), as one of the six Cardinal Bishops of the Hierarchy.

Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners.

Died. Blitzen, 20, last surviving dog of the German Canine Sanitary Corps, used by the Red Cross during the War; in Hamburg. Stuffed and wearing battle regalia, Blitzen will go to the Hamburg Zoological Gardens.