Milestones, May 20, 1940

Engaged. Mary Faith McAdoo, 20, daughter of ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; and Gerald Griffith James, 24, a Walt Disney animator; in Los Angeles.

Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church.

Married. Circusman John Ringling North, 36, president of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey; and French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey (Germaine Agassis), 30, whom he met while hunting talent...

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