Born. To John Nicholas Brown, once famed as "world's richest baby," later as "richest U. S. bachelor," and to Mrs. Anne Kinsolving Brown; a son; in Providence, R. I. Week before the Browns were rescued by Coast Guardsmen from their schooner in a squall.

Engaged, Dr. James Rowland Angell, 63, president of Yale University; and Katherine Cramer Woodman, daughter of Stuart Warren Cramer, textile manufacturer and G. O. Politician of Cramerton, N. C. Dr. Angell's first wife, Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, died in June 1931. Their two children are Professor James Waterhouse Angell of Columbia University and Mrs. William Rockefeller McAlpin of New York. Mrs. Woodman's husband, a onetime vice president of Cramerton Mills, N. C., by whom she has six children, died in 1930.

Married. William Barry Wood Jr., 21, of Milton, Mass., Harvard footballer; and Mary Lee Hutchins of Newton Center, Mass.; in East Edgecomb, Maine, after a one-week engagement (TIME, July 4).

Married. Rockwell Kent III, 22, son of the artist; and one Margaret F. White of Cambridge; in Pittsfield, Mass.

Married. Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Yale polo and hockey player, brother of Gentleman Jockey George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick (TIME, June 27); and Electra Webb, great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt and of James Watson Webb; at Garden City, L. I.

Married. Adelaide Sims, daughter of retired Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims; and Robert Francis Fiske of Harvard University's personnel department; in Newport, R. I.

Married. Marion Nevada Talley, 25, Missouri soprano who retired after one season (1926) with the Metropolitan Opera and three on the concert stage; and Michael Raucheisen, 43, German pianist; in White Plains, N. Y.

Married. Mrs. Helen McMahon Brady, widow of James Cox Brady, financier, sportsman, philanthropist; and Charles Suydam Cutting, New York sportsman, cousin of New Mexico's Senator Bronson Cutting; in Gladstone, N. J.

Divorced. Sir James Heath, 80, British ironmaster and colliery owner; and Sophie Mary Lady Heath, who flew alone from Cape Town to London in 1928; in London. Grounds: misconduct with Reginald Williams whom she married after obtaining a Reno divorce which Sir James held was illegal.

Retired. Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, 65, for 27 years director of University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. For three years he has been totally blind.

Convicted. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., boat builder; of obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington, N. J. Defendant Curtis repudiated his original confession that he had hoaxed Col. Lindbergh and the police by leading a long, fruitless search off the New Jersey coast for a Gloucester fisherman on which he said the baby was held. The prosecution was able to convince the jury that Curtis, therefore, must be shielding the actual kidnappers. Maximum penalty: three years in prison, $1,000 fine or both. The defendant appealed.

Died. John Hunter, 26, one of the four brothers who set a world's airplane refueling endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec. in 1930; by decapitation; in Rosedale, Miss. Attempting to untie his amphibian plane from a dock, Flyer Hunter was struck by the propeller.

Died. Major John ("Dashing Jack") Coats, 39, millionaire British sportsman and gambler, member of the famed Paisley cotton family, co-heir to a fortune of 20 million dollars; of heart disease; in London. In 1930 Major Coats took over the baccarat bank at Juan-les-Pins, France, lost almost $400,000 (TIME, Aug. 25, 1930).

Died. Manoel de Braganza, 42, onetime King of Portugal (1908-10); of acute edema of the glottis; in Twickenham, England.

Died. Dr. George Kimball Burgess, 58, director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards, internationally known physicist, metallurgist; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D. C.

Died. James Norman Hill, 62, eldest son of the late Railman James Jerome Hill, retired vice president of the Great Northern Railroad; of heart disease; in Wheatley Hills, L. I. Beginning as a section hand, Railman Hill complied with his father's advice "to get out of railroading" as soon as possible after reaching 40.

Died. Arthur Hawley Scribner, 73, president of Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers; of heart disease; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. A Princeton graduate, he was first president of the Ivy Club, permanent president of the class of 1881.

Died. Vice Admiral De Witt Coffman, 77, U. S. N. retired, Wartime commander of the battleship force of the Atlantic Fleet; of a heart attack; in Jamestown, R. I.

Died. John William Leonard, 83, founder-editor of Who's Who in America (1889); of old age; in Brooklyn.

Died. James Norris Gamble, 96, vice president of Procter & Gamble Co. ("Ivory" soap); of old age; in Cincinnati. Son of the firm's Co-Founder James Gamble, it was he who, after studying chemistry at the University of Baltimore, invented a soap that would float.

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