Born. To Dr. St. Louis Estes, 73, famed California food faddist (nuts, raw foods), and his wife: their seventh son, twelfth child; in San Francisco. Like all the other Estes boys, this one will be called St. Louis. Estes daughters have no first names.

Married. Gloria Baker, 19, No. 1 cafe-society glamor girl of 1937*. half-sister of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heiress to $10,000,000 (Bromo-Seltzer); and Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr., 24, Manhattan socialite and heir to $9,000,000 (tin-plate); in Palm Beach. A few days previously Topping was divorced by his first wife, Glamor Girl Jayne Dunham Shadduck Kirkland Topping, who got a settlement reputed at $250,000.

Married. Pierre Clemenceau. 34, grandson of the Wartime Premier of France; and Jane Louise Grunewald, 24-year-old New Orleans socialite; in New Orleans.

Married. Philip Morgan ("Phil") Plant, 36, multimillionaire/- playboy, former husband of Cinemactress Constance Bennett; and Marjorie King, 28, onetime Broadway show girl; he for the third time, she for the first time; in Manhattan.

Married. Curtis Bean Ball, 42, first husband of Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger; and Katharine Miller Leas, 22, Haverford, Pa. socialite; in Philadelphia.

Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman.

Married. Captain Angus Walters, 55, peppery skipper of the full-rigged Canadian schooner Bluenose, winner of the International Fishermen's Trophy (TIME, Nov. 7); and Mildred Butler, 28-year-old Nova Scotian; in Halifax. In Boston on his wedding trip, Captain Walters admitted that he was also trying to collect $6,000 in expense money because the race had been delayed. Said he: "The people of Canada will consider it an insult if payment isn't made soon."

Died. Warren T. McCray, 73, banker, stockman, onetime (1921-24) Republican Governor of Indiana; after a heart attack; at Kentland, Ind. Convicted of using the mails to defraud, he spent three years in Atlanta before being paroled in 1927, received a Christmas pardon from President Hoover in 1930.

* Incumbent: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier.

/-He changed his name from Manwaring when he was in school to please Commodore Morton F. Plant, his stepfather, thus became Commodore Plant's heir.

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