Engaged. Miss Louise Iselin of Manhattan, daughter of Ernest Iselin, banker (A. Iselin & Co.); to Count Leonardo Mercati of Paris, stepson of Baron Emerich von Pflugl, Austrian representative at the League of Nations.

Engaged. Rene Lacoste, French Davis Cup tennis player, and Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion golfer; at Paris, France.

Married. John Coolidge, 23, of New Haven, Conn., New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. clerk, Major in the .Connecticut National Guard, son of onetime (1923-29) President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; to Florence Trumbull, 24, of Plainville, Conn., daughter of Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut; at Plainville.

Married. Edward Lee Cannon of Washington, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; to Miss Elizabeth Roberts of New Bern, N. C.; at New Bern.*

Married. Miss Gertrude Ellen du Puy Sanford of Manhattan, sister of Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford (international poloist and turfman), to Sidney Jennings Legendre of New Orleans, La., Princeton athlete (1925) and adventurer (she went with him last year to the Mountains of the Moon, Abyssinia, on a museum trip); in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Doris Deane Arbuckle minor cinemactress, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, onetime cinema funnyman; at Los Angeles; for the second time. Grounds: desertion, cruelty.

Divorced. Mrs. Katherine Day Little; by Dr. Clarence Cook Little, onetime (1925-29) President of the University of Michigan (TIME, Feb. 4). Charge (uncontested): desertion.

Divorced. William Ashley Sunday Jr., son of the hot-shouting evangelist; by Mrs. Julia Mae Sunday; at Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: mental cruelty.

Birthday. Herbert George Wells, author (Mr. Britling Sees it Through, A Short History of the World, Men Like Gods); at Easton Glebe, Dunmow, Essex, England. Age: 63.

Murdered. Frank Reed Whiteside, 33, treasurer of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, landscapist; by unknowns, in Philadelphia. Neighbors heard him answer his door bell, heard a shot fired (through the heart), heard scuffling, fleeing feet. Apparent motive: robbery.

Died. Miss Josephine Crist Delmonko, last of her name to operate the old time (defunct since 1923) Manhattan restaurant which her great-grand-uncle founded; in Mount Kisco, N. Y.

Died. Jesse Lynch Williams, playwright (Why Marry? Why Not?), author (Princeton Stories, The Stolen Story, Other Newspaper Stories); of a heart attack; at the home of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; in Herkimer, N. Y.

Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile.

Died. Thomas LeBoutellier II, 51, of Manhattan, revolver champion of Europe, brother-in-law of Malcom Stevenson, international polo player; at Westbury, L. I. During the first chukker of a polo match at Meadowbrook Club, Mr. Leboutellier, stricken with heart failure, fell dying from his saddle.*

Died. His Eminence Cardinal Louis-Ernest Dubois, 73; at Paris; of uremic complications after an intestinal operation.

Died. Mrs. Benjamin E. Bensinger, wife of the president of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. (pool tables, phonographs); of heart disease; at the Lake Shore Country Club (Ravinia,Ill.).

Died. Horse Colorado, 6, son of Phalaris; at Lancashire, England. He won the Newmarket Two Thousand Guineas, came third at the Derby (1926). Owner: Lord Derby.

* Hometown of Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons.

* Similar was the polo death of Julius Fleischmann (yeast) at Miami (1925) and the tennis death of Payne Whitney, 52, at Manhasset, N.Y. (1927).