Milestones: May 12, 1923

Engaged. Miss Paulina du Pont, cousin of former Senator du Pont of Delaware, to J. Simpson Dean of Atlanta, intercollegiate golf champion in 1921. (Representing Princeton, he beat Sweetser of Yale in the final.)

Married. Louis Wolheim, 43, villain and hero of many stage and film dramas, including The Hairy Ape, to Miss Ethel Dane, 37, actress, in Manhattan. Wolheim was at one time an instructor in mathematics at Cornell University.

Died. John W. Rainey, 42, Democrat, Congressman from the 4th Illinois district (Chicago), of pneumonia. He had the shortest biography in the...

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