Milestones: Aug. 16, 1926

Born. To Princess Mafalda, 23, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and wife of Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm; a son, at Racconigi, Italy.

Engaged. Virginia Dorothea Morris, eldest daughter of the Morris banking system* founder; to Lieutenant Earle H. Kincaid of Covington, Va. Engaged. Ruth Whiting, daughter of William F. Whiting, (famed manufacturer of letter paper) (When you thing of writing think of Whiting); to one Neil Chapin, brother of Alfred H. Chapin Jr., famed tennis player; at Holyoke, Mass.

Engaged. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, one of the four...

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