Engaged. Austin Lament, Oxford student, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont; and Nancy L. Sullivan, of Boston and Asolo Veneto, Italy.

Married. Frances Louise Heckscher. granddaughter of Charitarian August Heckscher, and Socialite Philip Hofer of Cincinnati; in Manhattan.

Married. Frances Gershwin. 22, sister of Composer George Gershwin and Lyricist Ira Gershwin; and Leopold Godowsky Jr., 30, son of Pianist Leopold Godowsky; in the Gershwin brothers' Manhattan roof apartment. Brother George played them his "Rhapsody In Blue" on a grand piano.

Married. Cicely Isabel Fairfield (Rebecca West*), Scottish, critic and novelist, now a book-critic for the New York Herald-Tribune ; and Henry Maxwell Andrews, London banker; in London.

Honored. Daniel Cowan Jackling. president of Utah Copper Co., with the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal for achievement in mining;/- by the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. He found methods for making low-grade copper ore profitable.

Elected. Charles Anderson Boston, 67. of Manhattan; to be president of the American Bar Association, succeeding the late Josiah Marvel, of Wilmington. He is a member of the American Law Institute, committeeman of the New York State Bar association, vice president of the New York County Lawyers Association.

Appointed. Nathan Straus Jr.; to be vice chairman of the Zionist Emergency Fund in Manhattan, to combat the British Palestine policy; thus taking over Zionist responsibilities of his ill father, Nathan Straus.

Inaugurated. Dr. Robbins Wolcott Barstow, 40, as president of the Hartford Seminary Foundation and professor of practical theology in the Hartford Theological Seminary; succeeding President-emeritus William Douglas Mackenzie, 71; at Hartford, Conn.

Retiring. Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, 61, commodore of the Cunard Fleet, captain of the Berengaria. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the Carpathia, of which he was then captain, received the SOS, rescued 706 survivors. For this he received a gold medal from Congress, a letter of thanks from President Taft.

Birthday. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Age: 55. Date: Oct. 29. Celebration: Divine service; a visit from King Carol & Crown Prince Mihai.

Died. Bancroft Gherardi, 16 (named for her grandfather. Civil War Admiral), daughter of Rear Admiral Walter R. Gherardi, goddaughter of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; of infantile paralysis; in Manhattan.

Died. William R. Jackson, 36, of Madison, Ill., American Consul in Havana, his wife, Lillian, and John Tillotson Wainwright, 32, of Manhattan, Vice Consul in Matanzas; by drowning in Matanzas Bay, Cuba. Mrs. Jackson was blown from a cliff; Mr. Jackson attempted to rescue her; Mr. Wainwright attempted to rescue both.

Died. Kenneth Oliver Mason, 37, dean of freshmen at Brown University; of cerebral meningitis; in Providence, R. I.

Died. Col. James Addison Logan Jr., 51, member of Dillon, Read & Co.; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. As Assistant Chief of Staff he made the preparations for General Pershing's arrival in France with the A. E. F. After the War he was chief assistant to Herbert Hoover in his relief work. In 1924 he was unofficial observer for the U. S. in Reparations conferences.

Died. Edward H. ("Snapper") Garrison, 62, famed jockey; of heart disease; in Brooklyn. He rode more than 10,000 horses (among them Tenny, Bandbox, Montana, Raceland, Tammany, Blue Wing, Banquet) for August Belmont, James B. Haggin, Gideon Knapp, Col. Jacob Ruppert et al. He originated the "Garrison finish" (holding his mount in reserve until the last spurt).

Died. Rt. Rev. Ernest Harold Pearce, Bishop of Worcester, 65, onetime chaplain to King George; of heart disease; in London. He was known as "the singing Bishop"; he always sang in the chorus at the Worcester Festival of the Three Choirs.

Died. Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee, 72, daughter of President Benjamin Harrison, onetime official White House hostess; in Greenwich, Conn. She and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Russell Benjamin Harrison, instigated the first dance ever held in the White House.

Died. The O'Mahony of Kerry (Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony), 80, head of the County Kerry branch of the oldest clan in Ireland,* friend of the late great patriots John Redmond and Charles Stewart Parnell; at Grange, County Wicklow. To the last he marched to mass on Sunday mornings preceded by a piper, followed by his household. He had five estates from one to the other of which he moved whenever the whim took him. Wherever he went, all his cattle and sheep were sure to go.

* Rebecca West is heroine of Henrik Ibsen's play Rosmersholm. Novelist West began a stage-career at the age of 17 playing that role, later took the name.

/- Other Saunders medalists. David W. Brunton (1927); Herbert Clark Hoover (1928): John Hays Hammond (1929).

*The original O'Mahony married Sainha, daughter of King Brian Boru who drove the Danes from Ireland in 1014.

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