Milestones

Born. To Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, and Mrs. Hoover, a granddaughter, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover Jr., who are at Cambridge, Mass., pursuing postgraduate studies.

Born.* To Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James J. Davis a daughter (11 1/2 lb.), in Washington.

Born. To the onetime Leonora Hughes, 27, famed danseuse, now Mrs. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, a son; on Feb. 17, in her Argentine home, whence the fact has just been broadcast by mail.

Engaged. Paul Felix Warburg, son of Felix M. Warburg, rich Manhattan banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff, capitalist; to Miss Jean Stettheimer of San Francisco.

Died. The Misses Rebecca and Miriam Rosenbach, sisters of famed bibliophile** Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach (TIME, March 1, RELIGION), at Philadelphia, of pneumonia, within a few hours of each other.

Died. General Alexei Alexeivitch Brussilov, 70, perhaps the most brilliant strategist of the former Imperial Russian Army, in 1916 very nearly successful in outmaneuvering Ludendorff on the southern Russian front, after the Russian Revolution a commander in the Red Army, at all times rated as a superb cavalry leader; at Moscow, of inflammation of the lungs.

He was once a favorite of the Emperor Nicholas and went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets.

Died. H. R. H. the Dowager Queen Louisa of Denmark, 75, widow of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, mother of King Christian X of Denmark and of King Haakon VII of Norway, daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway, great-granddaughter of the delectable Desiree Clary (the daughter of a French banker) who charmed Napoleon and married his most fortunate Marshal, Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, later King Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway; at Copenhagen, after a long series of illnesses.

It was recalled that she violently opposed the marriage of her second son Charles (in 1905 elected as King Haakon VII of Norway by the Norwegian Parliament when that country was disunited from Sweden) to Princess Maud (now Queen Maud of Norway), the daughter of Edward VII of Britain. She preferred that he should marry the present Queen of the Netherlands, who was at one time alleged to be in love with him.

Died. John Calvin Coolidge, 81, father of the President of the United States, after several months' illness, at Plymouth, Vt. (see p. 6).

Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size.

*A fortnight ago. This announcement was inadvertently omitted from last week's TIME.

**Last week Dr. Rosenbach expanded -L-3,088 at the London sale of the library of S. R. Christie-Miller. He purchased the only known copy of William Lily's An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, ( -L-620), and an excessively rare account of The Marriage of Prince Frederick and the King's Daughter, the Lady Elizabeth, printed in 1613 (-L-1,150). The sales totaled -L-4,373. The largest bid by an Englishman was -L-102.