Monday, May. 27, 1929

Born. To Mr. & Mrs. James Stillman Rockefeller, of Greenwich, Conn., whose great-granduncle is John Davison Rockefeller; a son. Name: Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller, after Mrs. Rockefeller's great-granduncle.

Born. To Henry R. Luce, Editor of TIME, and Mrs Luce; a son, 7 lb.; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Paul Luce. Henry Luce III is 4.

Engagement Broken. By Princess, Irene of Greece, second-youngest daughter of the late King Constantine; with Prince Christian Schaumburg-Lippe, nephew of Denmark's King Christian.

Married. Pauline Lord, legitimactress (Anna Christie, Sandalwood, Mariners); and O. B. Winters, vice-president of Erwin, Wasey Advertising Agency.

Married. Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. Broadway songwriter; and a Mrs. Dorothy Blanchard Jacobson, Australian singer; in Baltimore.

Married. Mrs. Marcia Gluck Clark, of Manhattan, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck Zimbalist; and Russell Wheeler Davenport, novelist (Gentleman King); in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Joseph Frangois Sporturno, called "Coty," Paris perfumer-publisher; by Mme. "Coty." Charge: infidelity.

Elected. Mary Lewis, 32, blonde, blue-eyed; to the directorate of Best & Co., Manhattan department store. Miss Lewis types rapidly with three fingers, once sold draperies at Macy's for $12 per week, now writes Best & Co. advertising copy. Said she: "Luck did it."*

Elected. William M. Jardine, onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture; to be board chairman of Investment Corp. of North America, succeeding the late Lyman B. Kendall.

Died. Dr. Charles Edward Locke, Jr., 25, of Cleveland, brain specialist; son of Methodist Episcopal Bishop Charles Edward Locke of St. Paul, Minn.; in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe (see p. 15).

Died. Dr. John Phillips, 50, of Cleveland, co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe (see p. 15).

Died. Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying."

Died. Henry Marcus Lane, 74, of Cincinnati, famed construction engineer (Pike's Peak cog railroad); in the Cleveland Clinic catastrophe (see p. 15).

Died. Lilli Lehmann, 80, famed Wagnerian singer; in Berlin (see p. 78).

Died. William Durland, 81, oldtime Manhattan riding master, in Manhattan. On his horses had ridden many a U. S. President, many a Vanderbilt, Gould, Belmont, Ryan. In a lawsuit, Mr. Durland was once voluntarily defended by the late Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and the late Robert Green ("Fighting Bob") Ingersoll, famed agnostic. "When that pair got through talking," said Mr. Durland, "the judge just took it away from the jury and dismissed the complaint."

Died. Edward Payson Weston 90, of Brooklyn, N. Y., able pedestrian; in Brooklyn. His U. S. records: Boston to Washington, D. C., 443 mi., 208 hrs.; Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind.

*Directrix Lewis is not to be confused with Mary Lewis, 29, onetime Follies brunette, now a Metropolitan Opera soprano.