Born to Cinemactress Joan Blondell and her Cinemactor-Husband Dick Powell: a daughter, her second child, his first (last February he adopted her 3-year-old son); in Los Angeles. Name: Ellen; weight: 8 lb.

Engaged. Pamela Barbara May Gordon-Howley. 20, daughter of British Actress Gertrude Lawrence (Susan and God. Tonight at 8:30); to Lieut. Perley Edmund Holmes, 26, of the British Royal Engineers; in Bermuda.

Married. John George ("Johnny") Goodman. 28, U. S. amateur golf champion, onetime (1933) U. S. Open champion; and Josephine Kersigo, 27, his sweetheart from childhood who devoutly makes novenae before his major contests (TIME. June 6); in Omaha.

Died. John Medill McCormick, 21, son of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick and Illinois' onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, grandson of Cleveland's late great politico Mark Hanna, nephew of Chicago Publishing Tycoon Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, fourth generation heir of the Patterson-McCormick newspaper empire (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News}; fortnight ago when he and 20-year-old Princeton Student Richard Whitmer fell from a 2,000-ft. cliff in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquerque, N. Mex. Searchers, directed by Mrs. Simms, took a week to find McCormick's body.

Died. Berthold Neuer, 57, vice president and general manager of William Knabe & Sons (pianos), authority on musical history, friend & adviser of many world-famed musicians (Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Friedrich Schorr); of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Frederick William Vanderbilt, 82, oldest surviving member of the family, only surviving son of William Henry Vanderbilt, grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; after a week's illness; in Hyde Park, N. Y. An unassuming philanthropist, he possessed the twin talents of most Vanderbilts for railroading and yachting, was a director of 22 railroads, sailed his ships on the seven seas. Once he landed on the rocks off the coast of Colombia, was rescued with difficulty by a United Fruit liner.

Died. Caroline Poulder King, 88, last surviving widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 (Private Darius King who served 54 days); in Cheektowaga, N. Y. She married King, then 73, in 1869, drew $14,149 pension (total 1812 War pensions: $43,216,480.57) after he died 17 years later.*

*Remaining is the last pensioner from the War of 1812: Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 81, of Independence, Ore., daughter of the late Private John Hill of the New York Militia.

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