Engaged. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, grandson of John Davison Rockefeller and of the late U. S. Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 22, Manhattan socialite, Vassar graduate.

Married. Cathleen Vanderbilt Gushing, 30, daughter of the late Reginald Vanderbilt, just divorced from Harry Cooke Gushing III, Manhattan broker; and Lawrence Wise Lowman, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; in Hempstead, L. I.

Divorced, Josephine Armstrong Gwynne, onetime Patou model, grandniece of Confederate President Jefferson Davis: and Erskine Gwynne, socialite U. S. expatriate, editor of the French review Bonlevardier, grandnephew of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Paris.

Conferred. On Maurice Maeterlinck, 70, author (The Life of the Bee, The Blue Bird); the title of Count: by Albert, King of the Belgians; in Brussels.

Died, Harold George ("Gino") Watkins, 25, British explorer; by drowning; near Angmagsalik, Greenland. In 1927, aged 20, Explorer Watkins accompanied an expedition into Labrador's interior, later commanded a Cambridge University Arctic expedition. In 1930 he headed a Greenland expedition, this year was surveying a possible route for Pan American Airways.

Died. Lieut. Patrice de MacMahon, grandson of Marshal Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon, second President of the Third (present) French Republic; of a wound inflicted when ambushed by tribesmen: in Mauritania, French West Africa.

Died. George F. Walker, 48, brother of New York's Mayor James John Walker; of tuberculosis; at Saranac Lake.

Died. John Albert Macy, 55, critic and author (The Spirit of American Literature, The Story of the World's Literature, The Critical Game), onetime (1901-09) associate editor of Youth's Companion, onetime (1922-23) literary editor of The Nation; of a heart attack; in Stroudsburg. Pa.

Died. Russell Henry Ballard, 57, president of Southern California Edison Co., Ltd. and of California Institute Associates (backers of Caltech); of pneumonia: in Los Angeles.

Died. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, 59, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller: of cancer of the liver; in Chicago (see p. 12).

Died. John Craig, 64, actor and theatrical producer: of a heart attack: in Woodmere. L. I. Longtime leading man in the famed Augustin Daly Company at Daly's Theatre (Manhattan) he succeeded John Drew there, was later leading man for Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske.

Died. George Stanley McDowell, 76, managing editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer; of heart disease; in Cincinnati.

Died. Charles Winfield Waterman, 70, U. S. Senator from Colorado; after long illness; in Washington. His term would have expired March 3, 1933. His committees: Enrolled Bills, Judiciary, Naval Affairs, Patents, Privileges & Elections.

Died. Julian Halstead Kean, 78, lawyer, banker, utility head, brother of U. S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean and of the late U. S. Senator John Kean; in Union, N. J.

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