Married. Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr., 26, Camel cigaret scion, brother-in-law of Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds; and one Elizabeth McCaw Dillard, 24, daughter of a Winston-Salem (N. C.) bridge contractor; in Winston-Salem.

Married. Elisabeth Reeve Morrow, 29, eldest daughter of the late Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, Cardiff (Wales) public utilitarian; in Englewood, N. J. Planning to live abroad, Mrs. Morgan transferred her Little School to her mother and the school staff. An innovation was the mailing of wedding announcements second class (1 1/2 -c- stamp).

Retired. Oswald Garrison Villard, as editor of The Nation (but he will contribute a weekly signed page "Issues & Men"); George McClelland Reynolds, as board chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (see p. 60).

Birthdays. Taft School Headmaster Horace Button Taft, 71; Banker Rudolph Spreckles, 61; Alfred Emanuel Smith, 59; all race horses (Jan. 1).

Died. Mary Joan Gibson, 12-day-old child of Sidney Herbert Homewood, the Tappan (N. Y.) ridingmaster jailed last month for seducing Socialite Charlotte Ariel Gibson (TIME, Dec. 19) ; of bleeding at the navel; in Tappan.

Died. Larry Fay, 44, Manhattan racketeer; of two bullets in his chest, one in his back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony.

Died. Malcolm Douglass Whitman, 55, oldtime tennis star, Manhattan textile man; by jumping from his fifth-floor Manhattan penthouse. Thrice (1898-1900) U. S. singles champion, pioneer (1900, 1902) Davis Cup team player, he researched the game in his 1932 book, Tennis Origins and Mysteries.

Died. Belle Lindner Israels Moskowitz, 55, good friend & adviser to Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime publicity director for the New York State Democratic Committee; of complications following a fall down her front steps last month when she broke both arms; in Manhattan. A practical idealist, she plotted Smith's political rise, accepted no public office from him, earned Tammany Hall's hatred for her influence. When Smith's shot for the

Presidency fell short, she went with him into his Empire State Building project.

Died. John J. Carty, 71, telephone & telegraph engineer; of heart trouble following an operation; in Baltimore. Wartime director of the U. S. Army's independent telegraph & telephone system in France, post-War vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he was titled by Newton Diehl Baker "the greatest expert in America on the subject of telegraphic and telephonic communications." In 1915 he completed the first U. S. transcontinental telephone service, provoking Dr. John Huston Finley's poem:

Well, Carty hired a hall, as big it was As all outdoors. . . .

Died. Edward John O'Dea, 76, oldest-in-service U. S. Catholic Bishop (Seattle diocese), two days after the 50th Anniversary of his ordination; of cancer & peritonitis; in Seattle.

Died. Hikoichi Motoyama, 79, dean of Japanese journalism, of apoplexy, in Osaka, Japan (see p. 52).

Died, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, 82, French painter, Sevres porcelain art director; of old age; in Paris. He conceived the Wartime chore for aged & infirm French painters of painting the famed patriotic cyclorama, Pantheon of the War (396 by 45 ft.).

*Whitman's successor as U. S. singles champion, William A. Lamed, died by his own hand (pistol) at Manhattan's Knickerbocker Club in 1926.

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