Engaged. Sally Rand, 23, Century of Progress fan dancer; and Charles Mayon, 29, radio dealer, announcer of her act. Miss Rand plans to offer her fans to the Smithsonian Institution.

Married. Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61, Dry Fundamentalist pastor of Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church (TIME, Sept. 17): and Leota Alyne Griffin, 34, his secretary, cousin of his first wife; in Toronto.

Divorced. Mrs. Eppes Bartow Hawes Preston, daughter of onetime Missouri Senator Harry Bartow Hawes; from Lewis Thompson Preston, socialite aviator; in Reno.

Divorced. Dorothy Emmogene Grey, 23; from Romer Zane Grey, 26, son of the novelist; in Los Angeles.

Murdered. Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster of the Northfield (Mass.) Mount Hermon School for Boys, son of Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; by a shotgun discharged through his study window by an unknown assailant (see p. 52).

Died. Mrs. Anne Ector Pleasant, 56, wife of onetime Governor of Louisiana Ruffin Golson Pleasant; by accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom; in Shreveport, La. She was founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June 12, 1933).

Died. Jules L. Alciatore, 70, chef and proprietor of Antoine's New Orleans' most famed restaurant; after long illness; in New Orleans. Once a year he closed his restaurant, went to France to find new recipes. His Oysters Rockefeller were so named because he knew "no richer name for their richness." Overindulgence in his cafe brulo diabolique (coffee poured into a silver goblet of flaming spices and brandy) sent O. Henry to a bed from which he never rose. In his restaurant he permitted no smoking or coffee until after meals.

Died. William Lorimer, 73, onetime "Blond Boss" of Illinois Republican politics whose U. S. Senatorship ended in notorious election scandals; of heart failure; in a Chicago railroad station washroom. After six terms in the U. S. House, in 1909 he was elected Senator by a large combine of Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois Legislature. Year later the Chicago Tribune was furnished with papers purporting to show that he had bought his seat through a $100,000 "jack pot" to which even Illinois River fishermen had been forced to contribute. When the Senate gave him a clean bill, the Tribune unearthed fresh evidence. In July 1912 the Senate voted to unseat Boss Lorimer. Complete collapse of the Lorimer prestige came in 1914 when he was tried on mismanagement charges growing out of a bank chain he had formed after leaving Washington. Having watched his most famed pupil, William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, climb to power and fall with Tribune help, he retired into the lumber business.

Died. Countess Catherine Breshkovskaya, 90, "grandmother of the Russian revolution"; after long illness; in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Of rich, noble birth, she plotted revolution against the Tsar, lived and worked with Russian peasants, was exiled to Siberia in 1878. In 1917, Kerensky, who was at her death bed last week, ordered her back to Russia where she was received with tumultuous acclaim. When the Kerensky regime collapsed, she was again exiled from Russia.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.