Engaged. Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 27, LL.D. (Leyden), thick-legged heiress to the throne of the Netherlands; and Prince Bernard of Lippe of Germany, 25, lawyer, employe of the German dye trust, nephew of Prince Leopold IV. Since she reached her majority no more burning issue has Holland had than the question of wholesome Juliana's consort.

Birthday-William Montgomery ("Bad Bishop") Brown, 81, celebrated onetime Episcopal ecclesiastic unfrocked in 1925 for heresy, now a bishop of the Old Catholic Church in America; in Galion, Ohio. Celebration: dinner with Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder.

Awarded. To Mrs. Bertha Gott Smith, 32, who since 1932 has lived apart from Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr., 35, whom she is now suing for separation; by New York's Supreme Court Justice Abram Zoller in Syracuse: $150-a-month alimony.

Divorced, Charles Cutler Dawes, son of Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes who headed Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; by Mrs. Emily McCormick Dawes; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion.

Divorced, Publisher Raoul Herbert Fleischmann of The New Yorker; cousin of the late Julius Fleischmann (yeast) ; by Mrs. Ruth Gardner Fleischmann, in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty.

Left. By the late Mrs. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, divorced in 1927 from Manhattan Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt: an estate of $6,765,972; in Mineola, N. Y. It was found that she owed her onetime husband $14,945 in overpaid alimony.

Left. By the late great Muckraker Lincoln Steffens (TIME, Aug. 17); to his son, Peter, 10: a $100,000 trust fund; in Salinas, Calif.

Died, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, 50, racehorse owner, much-publicized daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins; in Manhattan. Long courted by the late Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, she reputedly passed him up when he failed to get the throne of Albania.

Died, Harry Bates Thayer, 78, onetime president (1919-25) and board chairman (1925-28) of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn. Under his presidency A. T. & T. upped its outstanding capital to $898,398,000 eclipsing U. S. Steel, became the world's biggest corporation.

Died. Mrs. Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, 80, widow of Treasurer Benjamin Newton Duke of American Tobacco Co., sister-in-law of American Tobacco's late great Founder James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke;, in Blowing Rock, N. C.

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