Milestones

Born. To Mrs. Burton S. Tucker, 53, and Tucker, 20, their second child, a son; at Los Angeles. Their marriage, three years ago, gained them national fame and resulted in their indictment on charges of conspiracy and perjury to conceal Mr. Pucker's age (17). Last week their ages were entered on the birth certificate as 36 (Mrs.) and 30 (Mr.).

Engaged. Miss Catherine Bonar Law, daughter of the late famed Prime Minister of England 1922-23), Andrew Bonar Law; to one Kent Galbraith Colwell, younger son of Captain J. C. Colwell, retired, U. S. N.

Engaged. "Peggy Hopkins Joyce" actress, originally Margaret Upton, daughter of a Virginia barber to one Stanford E. Comstock, Miami realtor. Her other husbands: Everett A. Archer, Sherbourne Hopkins, Philbrick Hopkins Jr. James Stanley Joyce, Count Gostd Morner. All were divorced.

Engaged. Miss Sylvia Thompson, 23, English author of a recent U S best seller, The Hounds of Spring (TIME, March 1, BOOKS); to one Peter Luling, Eton-Oxford raised Manhattanite.

Died A. Leonard Beekman, 29, onetime (1914-19) Princeton tennis player, onetime ranked among the second ten U.S. players; in Manhattan, after dropping from an eleventh story bathroom window.

Died. Mme. Krao Farini, 49, famed "Siamese Missing Link, for 30 years a strange hairy freak in the employ of numerous circuses; in Manhattan, of asthma and influenza, while employed by the combined Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circuses.

Died. Louis Franklin Genet, 82, grandson of Edmond Charles ("Citizen") Genet (first Minister sent to the U.S. by the French Republic), who described President Washington as "a weak old man under British influence"; at Leonia, N.J. Mr. Genet, able lumber dealer, retired 30 years ago.

Died "Sergeant Murphy," 16, first U.S. owned horse to win (1923) the British Grand National; at Bogside, Scotland, "destroyed after breaking a rear leg on a turn in the West Scotland Steeplechase. He was mourned by Stephen Sanford Jr., U.S. scion who purchased him for $10,000 and won $50,000, the Grand National Trophy Cup and many another pelf-filled purse.