Milestones: Oct. 14, 1929

Engaged. William Roth Wister, son of Author Owen Wister (The Virginian), and Miss Frances Kearsley Mitchell, granddaughter of Edward Townsend Stotesbury (see p. 54).

Engaged. Philip Aaron ("Phil"') Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken, N. J.

Married. John Dos Passes, 33, author (Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer) playwright (Airways, Inc.), and...

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