Milestones, Jul. 9, 1934

Engaged. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, third son of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary French, granddaughter of the late Frederick Billings, co-founder and onetime president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A graduate of Princeton where he received-third place in a poll as the "most pious" student, Laurance Rockefeller completed his first year at Harvard Law School last month.

Married. John Jacob Astor 3rd, 21, son of Mrs. Enzo Fiermonte; and Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present...

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