Milestones: Jun. 21, 1926

Engaged. Charles H. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. (meat, glue, fertilizer, gelatin, wool, leather, soap); to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano (Metropolitan and Chicago Opera, recently in concert). In Chicago she said: "American men are the loveliest to marry."

Engaged. Vera ("Moral Turpitude") Countess Cathcart (TIME, March 1, NATIONAL AFFAIRS); to Gideon Boissevain, Dutch-U. S. banker. In London he said last week: "Of course we both are very shy about the whole affair."

Married. Elaine Hammerstein, fluffy cinema actress, daughter of Manhattan producer Arthur Hammerstein,...

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