Engaged. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 23, small captain of Yale's football team; and Miss Marion Noble, stenographer with Southern New England Telephone Co. in New Haven, Conn., his friend since school days. The engagement was revealed by Writer Steve Hannagan in Cosmopolitan.

Engaged. Adelaide Sims, daughter of Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims of the U. S. Navy, retired; and Robert Francis Fiske, member of the personnel department of Harvard University.

Married. Eleanor Hard, 26, daughter of Washington Correspondent William Hard (Consolidated Press As-sociation), staff worker on FORTUNE; and Gerard Kirsopp Lake, Manhattan textile man, son of Professor Kirsopp Lake (Ecclesiastical History) of Harvard; in Washington. A wedding guest: Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Bride's attendant: Countess Felicia Gizycka, daughter of Editrix Eleanor Medill Patterson of Hearst's Washington Herald.

Married. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China; and Jane Beck of Cody, Wyo., his lifelong friend, daughter of George T. Beck, onetime Wyoming State Senator and Democratic candidate for Governor; at the U.S. Consulate in Tientsin.

Sued for Divorce. Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post; by Mrs. Evelyn Lucille Walsh McLean, who last year filed a separation suit, obtaining $7,500 a month alimony, custody of their three children, and a court order restraining Publisher McLean from divorcing her in Mexico (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930, June 22, 1930); in Washington. Her charges: that he lived "for protracted periods" with an unnamed woman; that he drank excessively and caused Mrs. McLean "bodily suffering by beating her and striking her, cursing and calling her vile names." A second suit petitions the District of Columbia Supreme Court to remove Publisher McLean as co-trustee of the estate of his late father, John Roll McLean, which owns the Post, the sale of which he prevented last summer (TIME, July 6). Referring to one of her husband's inamoratas, Mrs. McLean contended:

"She has attended with him at least two conferences in the offices of the Post. This conduct is so shocking, scandalous and notorious that it creates a demoralized condition among the other officers and employes of the paper and injuriously affects the good-will and good name of the paper itself."

Divorced. Ganna Walska, Polish-born would-be opera singer; by Harold Fowler McCormick. chairman of the executive committee of International Harvester Co.; after a ten-minute hearing; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Mme Walska had lived in Chicago rarely since their marriage in 1922, not at all since 1929. Reported property settlement: more than $2,000,000, including one-fourth of Mr. McCormick's holdings in International Harvester Co. From the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Manhattan, her third husband, Mme Walska received $3,000,000 when he died in 1929.

Awarded. To the late Dr. Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and member of its Nobel Prize Committee on Literature, who died at 66 last April; the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1931. He refused the award in 1921.

Left. To Hope Williams, actress (Holiday, The New Yorkers); by Dr. R. Bartow Read, 33-year-old Manhattan physician whom she divorced three years ago and who died in a plane crash last month; his entire estate, "over $10,000" and including "motors, yachts and animals."

Died. Mrs. Mary Gardiner Dunning Thwing, 56, second wife of President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Reserve University; after an operation; in Cleveland, Ohio. Oldtime suffraget leader, she was the first president of the Women's City Club of Cleveland.

Died. Elmer Henry Maytag, 67, founder with his brother Frederick Louis Maytag of The Maytag Co. (washing-machines); after an automobile accident; in Newton, Iowa.

Died. Daniel Chester French, 81, sculptor, after a lingering illness, at his summer home in Stockbridge, Mass. Born at Exeter, N. H., he was related to Daniel Webster and John Greenleaf Whittier; his father, Henry Flagg French, was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury through the administrations of Hayes, Garfield & Arthur. His first sculptor's scraper was a gift from Louisa May (Little Women) Alcott. At the age of 24 he cast his first well-known statue, that of the Minute Man at Concord. President Grant and the Marine Band attended the unveiling. Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the oration and patriarchal Poets Lowell & Longfellow marched behind the band. Sculptor French postponed his wedding for a day because his hero, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, objected to the short legs of a statue he was working on. Even now modern students have difficulty in differentiating the work of the two men. French's best known, possibly his best works were the two statues of Abraham Lincoln--standing at Lincoln, Neb., sitting at Washington D. C. The latter was carved from 20 blocks of marble, contains 4.360 cu. ft. of art. Other well known works: the statue of John Harvard at Cambridge, Alma Mater at Columbia, the four groups Europe, Asia, Africa, America in front of the New York Customs House.

Died. Edward Carter, 91, founder with his brother of Carter's Ink Co.; in Montreal.

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