Engaged. Lucie Bedford, daughter of Frederick T. Bedford,* of Manhattan, yachtsman-president of Penick & Ford (Brer Rabbit molasses and syrup), granddaughter of Standard Oilman E. T. Bedford; to Briggs S. Cunningham, Cincinnati scion.

Married. William Eugene Johnson, 66, famed blind-in-one-eye anti-saloon rallier; to Mary Bessie Stanley, widow of a deputy-rallier; in Syracuse. Mr. Johnson's first wife was Lillie M. Trevitt, who was William Jennings Bryan's stenographer.

Married. Zona Gale, 53, famed playwright (Miss Lulu Belt, 1920), novelist (Preface to a Life, 1926) and short story-writer (Yellow Gentians and Blue, 1927); to William L. Breese, 63, wealthy hose manufacturer; at Portage, Wis., her birthplace.

Married. Alexander Johnston Cassatt, grandson of socially famed Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer, and the late Pennsylvania Railroad president, Alexander J. Cassatt of Philadelphia; and Cassandra Morris Stewart, debutante of last season; in Baltimore.

Married. Mrs. Helen L. Howerton, mother of Major Mite, 18-year-old Ringling-Barnum midget; to Robert H. Crawford, Ringling-Barnum ticket-taker; in Boston.

Married. Elizabeth Stettinius, daughter of Edward R. Stettinius, partner, until his death in 1925, of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to Juan Terry Trippe of Manhattan, president of the Pan-American Airways, the Atlantic Gulf Carribbean Airways and the Southwestern Air Lines; at Locust Valley, Long Island.

Married. Joan Higginson, daughter of Francis Lee Higginson, partner of Lee Higginson & Co. (Boston investment bank); to Alexander Mackay-Smith of Manhattan; in Boston.

Married. Mary White Merrill, granddaughter of Charles E. Merrill (Merrill Lynch & Co., chain store security specialists) of Manhattan; to Armitage Watkins of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Reconciled. James Alexander ("Jim") Tully, onetime boisterous tramp, later a prizefighter, most recently a writer (Jarnegan, Circus Parade); and Mrs. Margaret Myers Tully. After a separation of five days they were reunited, due to the efforts of Cynic H. L. Mencken, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, Novelist Rupert Hughes.

Appointed. Professor Young B. Smith, of Columbia University, to be Dean of the Law School.

Elected. Felix d'Herelle, famed French-Canadian bacteriologist, discoverer of the bacteriophage (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926); to the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine.

Elected. James Simpson, 54, president of Marshall Field & Co. since 1923, to be director of the New York Central R. R.; to fill directorate left by the late Chauncey M. Depew, who died two months ago (TIME, April 16). Only one other Chicagoan has sat on this board--the late James Berwick Forgan, president of the First National Bank of Chicago.

Died. Basil Miles, 51, able economist and diplomat, for the last six years American Administrative Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce; following an operation; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Edwin Thomas Meredith, Iowa publisher of farm journals, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), bitter opponent of the Brown Derby for the presidential nomination at Houston. Iowa failed, however, to name him Favorite Son in the 1928 primaries.

Died. Dr. William Mann Irvine, 63, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., for the past 35 years; of cerebral hemorrhage; following his collapse a week ago at the commencement exercises of the school.

Died. John Enri dal Plaz, 63, president of the French Line, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; in Paris; after a breakdown probably due to overwork.

Died. Franklin Duane, 65, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin; of a heart attack; at his 45th reunion at Princeton University. Two days before, Robert Wilson Patterson Jr., of the class of 1913, was struck by lightning, at Princeton.

Died. Mrs. Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, 69, organizer in 1903 of the Woman's Social & Political Union, leader of window smashing, Cabinet-heckling British Suffragists, often jailed, always released after hunger striking; two days after the House of Lords had approved the bill lowering the age limit for women voters from 31 to 21; in London.

Died. Dr. Maurice Bloomfield, 73, internationally famed among philologists and orientalists, professor of Sanscrit at Johns Hopkins University, first to edit from the original Sanscrit the Grihyasamgraha of Gobhilaputra, and the Sutra of Kaucika; in San Francisco; of heart disease.

Died. Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, Marquess of Lincolnshire, 85, Ancient of English Liberalism, Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, successively (1881-85) Captain of the Royal Bodyguard; (1885-90) Governor of New South Wales; (1892-95) Lord Chamberlain of the Household and (1905-11) President of the Board of Agriculture; at High Wycombe, England.

* Who, with George Oliver May, wealthy Manhattan accountant, last week gave a trophy and prizes for the first intercollegiate yacht race. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, in Norwegian eight-metre yachts, borrowed from the Pequot Yacht Club, raced a 6.9 mile course off Southport, Conn. Princeton's boat won the cup; each member of the crew a silver ashtray.