Born. To Mrs. Robert Littell of New York (the onetime Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter) a son, one of whose grandfathers was James G. Blaine, famed Secretary of State, and two of whose great-grandfathers were Eliakim Littell, founder of The Living Age, and Dr. Leopold Damrosch, founder of the Oratorio Society and introducer of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera House; at Bar Harbor, Me.

Engaged. Graeme E. Lorimer, son of George Horace Lorimer, Editor since 1899 of The Saturday Evening Post and author of Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, to Miss Sarah Hunter Moss, of Bala, Penn.

Married. The father of famed cinema actresses Viola Dana and Shirley Mason (one Emil A. Flugrath of Los Angeles) to Miss Marie M. Bourgeois, 23, of Quebec.

Married. Miss Gratia Buell Houghton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Amory Houghton of Corning, New York, niece of Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, to Alan Gillespie Rinehart, son of Dr. Stanley M. Rinehart* and Novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart of Washington, D. C., and onetime (1923) Political Editor of TIME, the Weekly News-Magazine; in the private chapel of the Houghton estate overlooking Padanaram Bay, Mass.

Died. Seymour L. Cromwell, 54, onetime (1921-24) President of the New York Stock Exchange; at Morristown, N. J., of a sudden attack of pneumonia following a slight concussion of the brain suffered in falling from his horse.

Died. Herbert Parsons, 56, lawyer, Republican politician, onetime New York City Alderman (1900-1903), onetime member of Congress (1905-11), onetime (1916-1920) Republican National Committeeman from New York; in the House of Mercy Hospital, Pittsfield, Mass., of a ruptured kidney sustained attempting to ride his son's motor-driven bicycle.

Died. Alfred C. Bedford, 61, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, who preceded Walter Teagle and succeeded John D. Archbold as President of that company; at East Norwich, L. L, of heart disease.

Died. Sir Francis Darwin, 77, distinguished botanist, originator of the theory that plants have an "unconscious memory," asker of the question "Do plants think?" thrice a widower, son of the famed Charles Darwin; at Cambridge, England.

Died. Dr. J. S. Halstead, 107, "oldest physician and oldest Free Mason in the U. S.," progenitor of 80 living descendants, survivor of a wife who had passed away at the age of 95; at Breckenridge, Mo., in the night. For a year he was the family physician of Henry Clay, famed orator. In 1851 Mrs. Clay called him in to treat some slave children on their plantation who had contracted scarlet fever. He became the friend and medical adviser of Mr. Clay, who died in 1852.

* Author of The Commonsense of Health (TIME, August 25, 1924, MEDICINE).