Born. To Lady Astor. U. S.-born Member of Parliament: her first granddaughter, first child of her only daughter Phyllis and the 26th Lord Willoughby de Eresby; in London.

Married. Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, grandson of the late great "Mark" Hanna, national boss of the G. O. P.; and Helen Maschke, daughter of Cleveland's aging onetime Republican Boss Maurice Maschke; secretly, in New Castle, Pa.

Married. Evelyn Lave, 34, English actress (Bitter Sweet), divorced wife of English Comedian Sonnie Hale; and Frank Lawton, 30, English actor (Cavalcade, One More River) ; at Yuma, Ariz.

Divorced: by Novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan; Emma Hulbert Burroughs, who married him 34 years ago when he was earning $15 a week; in Las Vegas, Nev. two days after she threatened to divorce him for incompatibility. Charge: cruelty.

Died, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling y Loret de Mola, 62, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S.; of asthma; in Washington. In 1932 he broke with Dictator Machado and on his overthrow in 1933 became successively Ambassador to the U. S.. Secretary of State. Provisional President, and Ambassador to the U. S. Last May he won a life-long fight when he became Cuba's sole signatory to the abrogation of the Platt Amendment.

Died. William Woodward ("Plain Bill") Brandon, 66, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Alabama; of brain hemorrhage; in Tuscaloosa. He won national notice by the thunderous booming of his voice, when, as Alabama's delegate to the 1924 National Democratic Convention, he led off 103 consecutive ballots with the cry: "Alabama casts 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood!"

Died, Eleanor, Viscountess Sandhurst, 73, last surviving child of Poet Matthew Arnold (Sohrab & Rustum), widow of the onetime (1912-21) Lord Chamberlain of England; in London.

Died, Dr. Theobald Smith, 75, famed immunologist, pathologist (TIME, Nov. 30, 1931); of heart failure; in Manhattan. In 1893 Dr. Smith established the principle of insect-borne infection and practically wiped out "Texas fever," scourge of cattle. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research placed him on its maiden directorate in 1901, where he served until his death.

Died. Mrs. Zoe Dana Underbill, 87, daughter of the late, great Charles Anderson Dana, onetime owner & editor of the New York Sun. Born on Brook Farm. Mass., in whose famed Socialist-Utopian experiment her father was a prime mover, she was its last surviving member.

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