Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7 1/2 Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly."

Engaged. Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, nephew of Andrew William Mellon; and Mrs. Constance Prosser McCaulley, daughter of Manhattan Banker Seward Prosser, widow of Vance McCaulley, who was found dead in his Manhattan apartment last autumn, supposedly a suicide.

Married. Anne Gould Meador, 22, great-granddaughter of the late Jay Gould; and Herman H. Elsbury, 24, dude ranch cowboy; in Cheyenne, Wyo., day after her first husband, Frank Spencer J. Meador, divorced her in Texas.

Appointed. Paul Fessenden Cruikshank, 37, founder and headmaster of Romford School (Washington, Conn.); to succeed Horace Button Taft, 74, as headmaster of Taft School (TIME, Dec. 31); in Watertown, Conn.

Left. By the late Charles Curtis, one-time (1929-33) Vice President of the U. S.; to Sister Dolly Curtis Gann, his official hostess: $25,000.

Died. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 33, socialite whose sensational marriage in 1924 to Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a Negro taxidriver, ended in years of litigation and finally divorce; of lobar pneumonia; in Long Beach, N. Y.

Died. Brigadier General William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, 56, commander of the U. S. Air forces in France during the World War; of coronary occlusion; in Manhattan. He returned from the War with six medals, an unswerving conviction that the Army and Navy were obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging the War and Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others when the dirigible Shenandoah crashed. Court-martialed and suspended, he resigned, retired to his Virginia estate, from which he emerged at frequent intervals to damn his onetime superiors with charges of inefficiency and incompetence, bellow louder than ever for the creation of a separate Air Department.

Died. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, 56, fifth cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 1933; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. The fourth Roosevelt to serve in that position (predecessors were Theodore, Theodore Jr. and Franklin D.), he was a consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked it.

Died. Matthew Elting Hanna, 62, long-time Latin-American diplomat, U. S. Minister to Guatemala since 1933; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Thomas ("Uncle Tom") Kearney, 66, nationally-known betting commissioner who wagered millions for others but not a cent for himself; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. A onetime bartender, he became a bookie in the '80s, opened his notorious "little big store" in St. Louis in 1910, accepted bets on politics, horse-racing, baseball, boxing. The first to make a future book on the Kentucky Derby, he lost $74,000 on the 1924 race, sold everything to pay it off in full. He quoted odds of 25-to-1 that Lindbergh would not fly the Atlantic, could get few to take them. His wife Ida will take his place at the cigar stand behind which he once spouted: "Good women don't gamble."

Died. Victor Howard Metcalf, 82, one-time (1904-06) Secretary of Commerce and Labor, onetime (1906-08) Secretary of the Navy; in Oakland, Calif. When President Theodore Roosevelt used his objective report to force California to back down on its anti-Japanese restrictions, his political influence suffered greatly and he later resigned in ill health.

Died. Sir Dinsha Edulji Wacha. 91, "Nestor" of Indian politics and economics who, by helping found the Indian National Congress 51 years ago, gave natives their first chance for political self-expression; in Bombay.

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