Milestones: Dec. 19, 1927

Engaged. Captain Michael Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Duchess of York, to Miss Elizabeth Cator.

Divorced. Walter Camp Jr., son of the late famed "Father of American Football," by Frances English Camp; in New Haven. She charged desertion, was awarded eleven-year-old Walter Camp III.

Divorced. Chester Alan Arthur, son of the late U. S. President Chester Alan Arthur; by Myra Townsend Arthur in Santa Barbara, Calif. She charged desertion since 1916.

Died. Young Griffo (real name Alfred Griffith), 56, onetime pugilist; in Manhattan; of apoplexy (see p. 23).

Died. Feodor Sologub, (Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov) 64, Russian...

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