Married. Florence, 23, daughter of the late Richard Teller Crane Jr. (plumbing fixtures), granddaughter of Chicago's famed Iron Master Crane; and William Albert Robinson, 30, explorer-author (Ten Thousand Leagues Over the Sea); in the Crane's pipe-organed mansion in Chicago.

Married. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann, relict of New York Morning Telegraph Publisher Edward Russell Thomas; and William Magraw, president of Manhattan's Underground Installations Co.; in Manhattan. Later kidnappers demanded $150,000 not to kidnap the bride's daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas, 7, $2,000,000 heiress.

Married. Princess Luba Obolensky; and Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy; scions of Russia's greatest pre-Revolution houses who have intermarried for five generations; in a Russian Orthodox Church in upper Manhattan. In 1931 the groom married the bride's sister. Princess Anna Obolensky, who two months later jumped off the Eiffel Tower.

Sued. Frederick Henry Prince. 73, Boston banker, board chairman of Chicago's Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.; by Arthur H. Mason. 63, trainer and seller of polo ponies and hunters; for $50,000 damages on a charge that after a 1929 polo game at the Myopia Hunt Club in which Mason rode Prince off the ball, Prince, cursing, swatted Mason behind the left ear with his mallet.

Sued. The estate of Aristide Briand, eleven times Premier of France, by Mme Jeanne Cornelie Nouteau, wife of a St. Nazaire banker, who alleges that her relationship with Bachelor Briand from 1889 until his death (TIME, March 14) was "such as to create a moral and material obligation to contribute to her support." Counsel for M. Briand's nephew & heir, Charles Billiau, admitted the open secret of Mme Nouteau's relationship, will contest her claim to receive either 150,000 francs ($6,000) in lump settlement or an annuity of 18,000 francs ($780). Two months before he died M. Briand sent Mme Nouteau 10,000 francs ($400) as the last of many presents, left her nothing in his will.

Elected. William C. Shepherd, 58, the Denver Post's managing editor since 1912, to be president, editor and publisher succeeding the late Frederick G. Bonfils. Blared the Post: "The Post will continue to be THE PAPER WITH A HEART AND SOUL."

Died. John Henry Markham Jr., 52, president of Petroleum Corporation of America ($100.000,000 investment trust), board chairman of Tulsa's Exchange National Bank, papal knight; of pneumonia; in Chicago.

Died, Godfrey G. Goodwin, 60, U. S. Representative-reject from Minnesota, Republican; instantly, when he fell/jumped from the fifth-floor window of his hotel room, several days after a collapse brought on by high blood pressure and heart trouble; in Washington's Hotel Driscoll at the foot of Capitol Hill. Died. Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar. 63, last Premier of Spain (February-April 1931) under the Monarchy; of lung trouble, uremia and complications; in Madrid.

Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife, nor Widow), owning a Manhattan restaurant, writing (The Roar of the Crowd).

Died, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 71, sister of the late President, mother of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, relict of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Robinson; of pleural pneumonia; in Manhattan. Poetess (The Call of Brotherhood, Out of Nymph), politician, in the 1932 campaign she supported local Republican candidates but not President Hoover because "my own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate."

Died. Nellie Corbett Moody, 90, grandmother-in-law of Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. and of Helen Wills Moody; of old age; in San Francisco.

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