Engaged. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, third son of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary French, granddaughter of the late Frederick Billings, co-founder and onetime president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A graduate of Princeton where he received-third place in a poll as the "most pious" student, Laurance Rockefeller completed his first year at Harvard Law School last month.

Married. John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte.

Married. Mary Etta Kleberg, daughter of Texas Representative Richard M. Kleberg; and Forrest Lee Andrews. Houston attorney; in "Santa Gertrudis" on the Kine Ranch. Texas. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the Kleberg dynasty which for half a century has ruled Texas' 1,250,000-acre King Ranch of which Santa Gertrudis is the manor house. The ranch's value is estimated at $18,590,000 (TIME, Dec. 4). Present at the wedding were 2,500 guests.

Divorced. Edward Francis Willis James, son of the late Mrs. William ("Willy") James, famed Edwardian hostess; from Ottilie E. ("Tilly") Losch James, Viennese dancer; in London. The divorce followed a sensational eight-day trial at the close of which Mrs. James and Prince Serge Obolensky, who was named corespondent, were ordered to pay costs ($50,000).

Elected. General Lazaro Cardenas, 39: to be President of Mexico; in a peaceful one-sided election during which only one man was shot. He succeeds Abelardo Rodriguez in December.

Elected. John Stewart Bryan, 62, publisher of the Richmond, Va. News-Leader: to be president of the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.).

Sentenced. Joseph Wright Harriman, 61, onetime president of Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. (Manhattan): to four and one-half years in a Federal penitentiary; for misapplication of bank funds and falsifying books; by a U. S. District Court in Manhattan.

Died. Hendrik Wladimir Albrecht Ernst, 58, Duke of Mecklemburg, modes, self-effacing Prince-Consort of The Netherlands; of heart trouble; at The Hague. He married Queen Wilhelmina in 1901.

Died. Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 62, of an intestinal disorder; in London. In 1895 he married Consuelo Vanderbilt; in 1926, five years after her divorce from the Duke and her marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title.

Died. Henry Hollis Horton. 68, one-time (1927-33) Governor of Tennessee; after a long illness: in Chapel Hill. Tenn. In 1931 an attempt to impeach him. charging connivance with Publisher Luke Lea (now in a Federal jail for misapplication of funds), was voted down.

Died. Milton C. Work. 69. whist and bridge authority, founder with Sidney Lenz of the "official" system of contract bridge bidding; of cancer; in Philadelphia.

Died. Zaro Agha. circa 160. a Turk believed to be the oldest man in the world; of uremia; in Istanbul. Doctors who examined Zaro Agha thought his abnormal pituitary gland responsible for his longevity, never wholly subscribed to his statement that he was born two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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