Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Amory Revere Curtis of Melrose, Mass.: a son, great-great-great-grandson of Paul Revere; in Stoneham, Mass. Weight: 7 lb.

Engaged. Rosemary Ames, 27, film actress, daughter of the late Chicago Publisher Knowlton Lyman ("Snake'') Ames; and Abner J. Stilwell, vice president of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. Both have been married before, Miss Ames to 1) E. Ogden Ketting, onetime confidential secretary to Samuel Insull, and 2) Bertie Alexander Meyer, London theatrical producer.

Engaged. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, 42, No. 2 Nazi. President of the Reichstag, Realm Minister of Aviation, Chief of the German Secret Service, Premier of Prussia, Commander of Police, Head Forester and Chief Game Warden and Master of the Hunt in Prussia, Director General of the State Theatres; to blonde, buxom Emmi Sonnemann, 35, whom he appointed "Prussian State Actress" during his courtship. Said he: "My best man will be Adolf Hitler." The shrine erected by General Goering to his late first wife, a Swedish Baroness, is a point of pilgrimage for the Nazi League of German Girls. During the War Goring was an authentic national hero, succeeded the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen as commander of his death-dealing "Flying Circus."

Married. William Brown Bern, 28, son of the Secretary of War; and Helen Mary McCollam, 25, RFC employe; in Washington.

Divorced. Mrs. Louisa Carpenter Jenney, dashing horsewoman, niece of Pierre Samuel du Pont, great & good friend of Torchsinger Libby Holman; from John King Jenney, du Pont executive; in Wilmington, Del. Rich Mrs. Jenney sheltered Singer Holman in 1932 after the death of her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds, later adopted a small girl to keep Smith Reynolds Jr. company.

Acquitted. Samuel Insull, 75, deposed utilities tsar; of a charge that he embezzled $66,000 from one of his holding companies to bolster his brother Martin's stock-trading account; by a jury in Chicago's Criminal Court. It was his second trial & acquittal following the fall of his $3,000,000,000 utilities empire (TIME, Dec. 5 et ante).

Died. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 46, banker, sportsman, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp., onetime board chairman of Madison Square Garden Corp.; following an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A partner in Hayden, Stone & Co., in 1929 he helped merge twelve aviation companies in Curtiss-WTright Corp.

Died, Henry Clay McEldowney, 66, president of Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co. (Mellon bank), friend and associate of Andrew William Mellon and the late Henry Clay Frick; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City, N. J. His 1932-33 salary of $165,000 was the highest paid any U. S. banker (TIME, March 12, 1934)

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor, 73, relict of Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor, Colorado miner; by freezing to death; in Leadville, Colo.

Died. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, 77, surgeon, gynecologist, co-organizer of Chicago's Post-Graduate Medical School, organizer of its Charity Hospital, founder-editor of Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, founder-director-general of the American College of Surgeons, board chairman of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine; of heart disease; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Ex-Queen Joanna of Tahiti, 80; in Papeete. Born Marau Toroa, daughter of a British sailor and a native princess, she married King Pomare V in 1875 when England and France were intriguing for Tahiti. Queen Joanna favored England. Fun-loving, she shocked Christian missionaries with her private life, which included giving birth to a daughter whose paternity Pomare denied in a royal proclamation. Finally won by French diplomacy, Joanna made no protest when her husband abdicated in 1880.

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