Monday, Jan. 07, 1929

Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast.

Married. Warren Redenock Straton, Manhattan Beaux Arts sculpture student, son of Rev. John Roach Straton; to one Ruth Stokes Cater of Douglaston, N. Y.; by Dr. Straton. Later, while driving to visit his son in Norfolk, Va., Dr. Straton was chased by motorcycle police, arrested for driving 50 miles an hour.

Married. Richard Harold Saxon Tudor Bold, songster of Earl Carroll's Vanities, great-grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, descendant of English Kings (Harold the Saxon, Richard the Bold); and Rae Gardner, Colonial scioness, of Albany, N. Y.; in Greenwich, Conn.

Divorced. Howard Henry Spaulding of Chicago; by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charged habitual drunkenness.

Died. Irving Berlin Jr., 24 days old, grandson of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay, son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Ellin Mackay Berlin of Manhattan; of a heart attack; on Christmas morning, in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Andrew Amici, physician to Achille Ratti, Pope Pius XI; of bronchial pneumonia; in Rome.

Died. Howard W. Nesbit, 41, Bronx salesman, brother of famed Evelyn Nesbit, Harlem cabaret hostess, onetime wife of Harry K. Thaw; from suicide by hanging; in The Bronx.

Died. T. Suffern Tailer, 61, banker, sportsman & socialite of Newport and Manhattan; of heart disease; in Baltimore.

Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. David Bancroft ("Debe") Johnson, 73, founder (1886) & president of Winthrop College for Women at Rock Hill, S. C., onetime President of the National Educational Association; of colitis; in Rock Hill.

Died. Edmund Coffin, 84, Manhattan lawyer, father of Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; in Manhattan.