Milestones: Sep. 2, 1929

Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic air passenger, Women's Air Derby contestant (see p. 50) and Walter Camp Jr.. President of Inspiration Pictures, Inc., son of the late great football coach. "Miss Elder's" divorced husband. Lyle Womack, returned last winter from the Byrd Antarctic expedition.

Married. Gladys Walton, show girl (Princess Flavia, Lady in Ermine); and Clifford R. Parliman, flyer; in an airplane 5,000 ft. above Roosevelt Field, L. I.

Married. Diego Rivera, of Mexico City, mural painter, 1929 winner of the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architecture (TIME, May 6); and...

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