Engaged. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, youngest daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, onetime fiancee of Count Alexander von Hochberg und zu Fuenstenstein (TIME, Feb. 10, 1930), and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, aviator, employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in Umkirch Castle, Freiburg, Baden, Germany. After the betrothal ceremonies the couple took off for a short Verlobungsfahrt (engagement trip) in an airplane.
Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America."
Engagement Denied.By Elisabeth Morrow, kindergarten teacher, eldest daughter ofU. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, once reported engaged to Charles Augustus Lindbergh* and Rev. Clyde H. Roddy, widower, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of North Arlington, N. J. (ten miles from the Morrow home).
Married. Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 20, freshman at Williams College, adopted son of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Charles Gates Dawes; and Eleanor Frances Dillingham, 20, sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, daughter of Professor Frank T. Dillingham of the University of Hawaii; secretly, last month; in Belchertown, Mass.
Married. John Sterling Rockefeller, Manhattan bank employe, grandson of the late President James Alexander Stillman of National City Bank, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller; and Paula Watjen, daughter of Alexander W. Watjen, representative of Guaranty Trust Co. for Central Europe; in Manhattan.
Died. Walter Ansel Strong, 47, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, president of The Chicago Daily News Inc. which bought it in 1925 after the death of its owner Victor Fremont Lawson for over $13,500,000 (a record price for a daily newspaper); of coronary occlusion (stoppage of blood vessels at the heart); in Winnetka, Ill. A onetime (1926-27) director of the Associated Press, he was a guarantor of the Chicago Civic Opera, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Publisher Strong also bought (1929) and consolidated with the News the Chicago Journal, Chicago's oldest daily.
Died. Dr. George Daniel Olds, 77, president emeritus of Amherst College (retired 1927), mathematics professor from 1891 and dean from 1909 until he succeeded Alexander Meiklejohn who resigned as president in 1923; after long illness; in Amherst. Mass.
Died. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson. 78, Nobel Prize physicist, measurer of Light's speed; of paralysis following apoplexy; in Pasadena, Calif, (see p. 36).
Died. Rev. Dr. James Cameron Mackenzie, 78, organizer and headmaster (1882-99) of Lawrenceville School at Lawrenceville, N. J., which he modeled on the house plan of Phillips Exeter Academy and the British public schools, reorganizer of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md. and its headmaster for two years; of heart disease; in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Founder and headmaster of his own Mackenzie School at Dobbs Ferry (later at Monroe. N. Y.) from 1901 until he retired in 1926, he declined invitations to be headmaster of Phillips Exeter, president of Lafayette College, superintendent of Philadelphia public schools. He was a co-founder of the Headmasters' Association of the U. S.
Died. Joseph Gilbert Thorp, 78, Boston lawyer, onetime president of the Massachusetts Prison Association, oldtime (1870) Harvard baseball player, amateur golfer, husband of Annie Allegra Longfellow, 74, who is the last surviving daughter of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* in Cambridge, Mass.
Died. Robert Weeks deForest, 83, Manhattan art patron, charitarian, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Welfare Council of New York and the National Housing Association, vice president of the American Red Cross, official in many another philanthropic organization; of heart disease after a long illness; in Manhattan. A Yale graduate, he practiced law in Manhattan, married Emily P. Johnston, daughter of President John Taylor Johnston of Central Railroad of New Jersey, became general counsel, director and vice president of the corporation. With his wife he collected Early American furniture for many a year, presented the Metropolitan Museum in 1924 with the famed American Wing.
Died. William L. Black, 88, sheep raiser, inventor, last surviving charter member of the New York Cotton Exchange; at his ranch near San Angelo, Tex. In the Civil War Mr. Black, then 19, was convicted of piracy, with eight other youths who tried to seize a ship at Panama for the Confederacy.
* Returning from Europe in 1928, she was asked by ship newshawks if the report were true. Before she could reply, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, at her side, exploded: "This is an infernal outrage!"
*From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice and laughing Allegra
And Edith with golden hair.
Do you think, O blue eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all?
The Children's Hour.
Grave Alice died in 1929. aged 79; Edith with golden hair, 61, in 1915.
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