Milestones, Dec. 21, 1936

Married-Rosa Melba Ponselle, 39, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Carle A. Jackson, Baltimore insurance man, son of Baltimore's Mayor Howard Wilkinson Jackson; in Manhattan.

Left. By the late Theatre Critic Percy Hammond of the New York Herald Tribune (TIME, May 4); to his son John T.; a net estate of $117,265; in Riverhead, N. Y.

Appointed. Dr. Fred Engelhardt, 51, professor at the University of Minnesota's College of Education: to be tenth president of the University of New Hampshire, succeeding the late Edward Morgan Lewis; in Durham, N. H.

Awarded. Posthumously, to Flyer...

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