Milestones

Born. To Hugh Herndon Jr., aviator who flew around the world in 1931 with Clyde Pangborn; and Mary Ellen Farley Herndon; a son; in Norwalk, Conn.

Born. To Edna Bes,. 33, English actress (There's Always Juliet), and Herbert Marshall, 43, film actor: a daughter; in London. To her first husband, Seymour Beard, Edna Best bore twin sons, now 12.

Married. Lincoln Ellsworth., 52, explorer who flew over the North Pole in 1926 with the Amundsen-Nobile expedition and who plans a similar flight with Pilot Bernt Balchen over the Antarctic next December; and one Mary Louise Ulmer, 32, aviatrix; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Stanley ("Stair") Laurel, 38, of the Laurel & Hardy cinema team; by Lois N. Laurel, 32, Grounds: that her husband no longer loved her, wanted a divorce.

Elected. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; to be first woman trustee of the Mercersburg Academy (Mercersburg. Pa.) which her sons John and the late Calvin Jr. attended.

Elected. Dr. Claude Moore Fuess, 48, acting headmaster of famed Phillips Academy (Andovcr. Mass.), to be headmaster, succeeding Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Biographer, historian, lecturer, Dr. Fuess has taught English at Andover since 1908, will be the school's tenth head. Resigned. William John Cooper, 51, U. S. Commissioner of Education since 1929; to become professor of education at George Washington University (Washington, D. C.).

Appointed. Walter Prichard Eaton, 55, drama critic and playwright; as professor of playwriting at Yale's Drama School, succeeding George Pierce Baker. Dramatist Lee Wilson Dodd, who was to have succeeded Dr. Baker, died fortnight ago (TIME. May 29).

Retired. Dr. Shailer Mathews, for 25 years dean of Chicago University's Divinity School, on his 70th birthday. Professor at the Divinity School since 1894, he calls creeds and doctrines so much "fussiness." He will go to the Orient to preach.

Died. Major Thomas Halbert Russell, 53, president of Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va.; when he flumped from a third-story window of Lankenau Hospital; in Philadelphia, Pa. Afflicted with anemia, toxemia and low blood pressure, he had been hospitalized for ten days.

Died. David Edward Town, 62, executive chairman of Hearst Corporations, board chairman of International Magazine Co. (Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Motor, Motor Boating, American Architect, American Druggist); of a blood infection; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. William Joseph McGlothlin, 65, president of Furman University (Greenville. S. C.); of injuries suffered in an automobile wreck while driving to the Southern Baptist Convention; in Gastonia; N. C. His wife, Mary Brezeale McGlothlin, was also killed.

Died. James Loeb, 65, banker and philanthropist, son of the founder of Manhattan's famed Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; of pneumonia; in Murnau, Germany. After retiring from partnership in his father's firm in 1901, he went abroad to live, devoted his wealth to literature and music. Best known Loeb benefactions: Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art, the Loeb Classical Library, the Psychiatric Experimental Institute in Munich.

Died. George Brinton Caldwell, 69, retired president of George B. Caldwell & Co., founder and first president of Investment Bankers' Association of America; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y.

Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

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