Born. To Francis C. E. Hitchcock of Long Island's polo-playing family: a son, Thomas Hitchcock III; on the 71st birth; day of Thomas Hitchcock Sr.; in Manhattan.

Married. Herbert Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, 24, British Davis Cup tennis player who was largely responsible for the defeat of the U. S. team last July (TIME, July 27); and Phyllis Konstam, British cinemactress; in London.

Married. Ruth Carol Key, only daughter of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key, co-junketer with him and 23 other U. S. mayors in Europe last June (TIME, June 8); and William Monroe Butler, Atlanta contractor; in Atlanta.

Married. Lady Sophie Mary Heath, 35, aviatrix; and George Anthony Reginald Williams, 33, aviator, West Indies-born; in Lexington, Ky., whither they had gone for the Prince of Wales steeplechase. Said the bride: "This is the first time I have ever married a young man. My first husband, Elliott-Lynn, was 76 when we were married, and my second, Sir James Heath, was 56."*

Married. John Held Jr. 42, cartoonist, author (Grim Youth, The Flesh is Weak), divorced last August by Mrs. Ada Johnson Held; and one Gladys Moore, 24, winner of a Galveston beauty contest in 1928 at which Artist Held was a judge; in Stamford, Conn.

Married. John Logic Baird, 42, Scottish "Father of Television," managing director of Baird Television Ltd.; and Margaret Cecilia Albu, 24. British concert pianist; in Coney Island, N. Y.

Honored. Martin Henry Carmody, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus; appointed "private gentleman-in-waiting of cape & sword" to His Holiness Pope Pius XI; in Rome.

Birthdays. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (81--see below); Louis Dembitz Brandeis (75); Thomas Hitchcock Sr. (71).

Birthday. Of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: his 81st, celebrated by proxy in Manhattan by Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, relict of Congressman William Bourke Cockran. For 40 years Mrs. Cockran has had full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie L. Ide . . . was born out of all reason on Christmas Day . . . that I ... have attained the age when 0, we never mention it, and that I have now no further use for a birthday of any description . . . that I have met H. C. Ide . . . found him about as white a Land Commissioner as I require ... do hereby transfer to the said Annie L. Ide . . . my birthday ... to have, to hold, exercise and enjoy the same in the customary manner, by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats, and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses, according to the manner of our ancestors. . . . And in the case the said Annie L. Ide shall neglect [to celebrate it] I hereby revoke the donation and transfer my rights in the said birthday to the President of the U. S. for the time being."

Died. Sidney Loeb, 28, statistician, market-letter writer for E. F. Hutton & Co., Manhattan brokers, brother of Hutton Partner Gerald M. Loeb; after an automobile accident; in Prescott, Ark.

Died. Mrs. Mary Boykin Ames; wife of President Joseph Sweetman Ames of Johns Hopkins University; after long illness; in Baltimore.

Died. Mrs. Winifred Sackville ("Mother") Stoner, 49, educator, writer, mother of Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., famed prodigy some 20 years ago; of chronic nephritis; in Manhattan.

Died. William Morrow, 58, founder (in 1926) and president of William Morrow & Co., publishers, onetime staff member of McClure's Magazine and Leslie's Monthly Magazine, secretary (1906-25) of Frederick A. Stokes & Co., husband of Author Honore Willsie Morrow; of acute nephritis and uremic poisoning; in Manhattan.

Died. Alvin Parker Gray, 78, Mayor of Pasco, Wash., one of 24 junketing U. S. mayors in France last summer (TIME, May 25, et seq.): of heart disease; in Pasco. Mayor Gray claimed to be the oldest active Mayor in the U. S.

Died. Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa, 91, "Grand Old Man of Japan"; in Tokyo. Most potent of Japanese after the royal family, he was born into the old merchant-aristocracy of the Shogun regime, was a young student when Commodore Matthew Perry first penetrated Japan in 1853. Later he was a member of the volunteer Samurai Guard which attended Townsend Harris, first (then lone) U. S. diplomatic agent in Japan. Vice Minister in the Finance Department of the Imperial Government in 1869. Shibusawa left government service to found the First National Bank, Japan's pioneer house. He helped found the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, Bankers' Association, Bankers' Clearing House, Stock Exchange, Marine Insurance Co., Tokyo Savings Bank and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (greatest steamship firm in the Far East). He built railways, became one of Japan's richest men, a leader in charitable and educational foundations. Created Baron in 1900, Viscount in 1920, Shibusawa visited the U. S. four times, twice on official delegations to discuss finance and commerce. Japan knew him as the "people's foreign minister."

*Faulty memory. Previously, Lady Heath has been quoted as saying her husband was 73 when they were married. He was 75.

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