Milestones

Engaged. Frank Carideo, quarterback of last year's championship Notre Dame football team; and one Vera Imogene Crawley of Columbia, Miss.

Engaged. Eric Martin-Smith, 22, Cambridge student, new British amateur golf champion (TIME, June i); and Joan Surtees, great-granddaughter of Robert Smith Surtees, oldtime sporting novelist (Jar-rocks's Jaunts & Jollities, Handley Cross).

Married. Roscoe Pound, 60, Dean of Harvard Law School since 1916, member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission (which expired with June-- see p. 13); and Mrs. James E. Miller, 49, widow of Dean Pound's old friend Dr. James E. Miller, organizer of Government hospitals for War veterans. Honeymoon: to Europe. Dean Pound's first wife, who was Grace Gerard of Columbus, Neb., died in 1928.

Divorced. Ralph Modjeski, famed bridge builder, son of late tragedienne Helena Modjeska; from Felicie Benda Modjeska, whom he married in Poland in 1885; for "extreme cruelty"; in Reno.

Won. By the estate of the late Viscount William Waldorf Astor-- (1848-1919) a rebate of $10,000,000 in Federal inheritance taxes, together with $6,000,000 in interest accrued since 1922. The re-fund will be divided between Viscount William Waldorf Astor II, 52 (eldest son), husband of Lady Astor, and John Jacob Astor, chairman of the Times Publishing Co. (London).

Convicted. Rogers Clark Caldwell, 41, Nashville banker; of fraudulent breach of a trust agreement between defunct Caldwell & Co. (TIME, June 8 et ante) and Hardeman County, Tenn. Offense: posting as collateral securities of less than specified value. Penalty: not more than three years imprisonment. Three similar indictments rest against him.

Died. Harry Lafayette Reichenbach, 49, press agent; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Versatile, spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after the War: "I got the Italians worked up to such a point that they would fall down and worship Wilson's picture every morning, before they gave the Pope a Thought."

Died. Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, 64, medical director of the Life Extension Institute, initiator of periodical medical examiners ; of apoplexy caused by prolonged strain; at Dresden, Germany.

Died. Joshua Alexander Hatfield, 68, president of American Bridge Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary); after brief illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Edward Goodrich Acheson, 75, inventor of carborundum; after brief illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Alice Mary Robertson, 77, second woman to serve in Congress (1921-23); of cancer; penniless, in Muskogee, Okla. A pronounced anti-suffragist, she refused a woman secretary while holding office, said it was "a man's job." During her campaign she made no speeches, announced the following platform: "First, I am a Christian; second, I am an American, and third, I am a Republican and a standpatter, too."

Died. Representative George Scott Graham, 80, of Philadelphia, U. S. Congressman for nine consecutive terms (since 1913), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; of paralysis; in Islip, L. I.

Died. Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87, famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture.

Died. General Albert Taylor Goodwyn, 88, onetime (1928-29) Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, husband of U. S. President John Tyler's granddaughter Priscilla Cooper Tyler, grandnephew of William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama; in Birmingham, Ala.

*Great-grandson of Fur Dealer John Jacob Astor, the original founder of the Astor fortune. As a young man he was a member of the New York State legislature (1877-81). Afterward he served as U. S. Minister to Italy for three years, published two romances, Valentine, Sjorza. In 1899 he became a naturalized British citizen. He was created a peer in 1916, a viscount in 1917.

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