Milestones: Aug. 9, 1926

Engaged. Irene Curie, daughter of Mme. Curie; to Dr. Frederick Joliot, also a radium scientist. Romance began with experiments in the Curie laboratories.

Engaged. Mabel Morgan Satterlee, granddaughter, of J. Pierpont Morgan; to Francis Abbott Ingalls Jr., grandson of David H. Houghtaling, late tea merchant.

Engaged. Ludlow Griscom, grandson of a founder of the International Mercantile Marine Co.; to Edith Sloan, granddaughter of the late Samuel Sloan.

Married. Charles H. Swift, potent packer, to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano, opera star; in the University of Chicago Chapel.

Divorced. Sir Richard Robert Cruise, oculist to...

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