Milestones: Jul. 21, 1924

Engagement denied. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman; McAdoo campaigner and society authoress, to Thomas J. Walsh, senior U. S. Senator from Montana and Permanent Chairman of the late Democratic National Convention. (The New York Bulletin, Manhattan gum-chewers' journal, scored a "beat" on this news item.)

Engaged. Theodore M. Edison, of West Orange, N. J., son of Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor, to Miss Anna Maria Osterhout, of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, a Professor in the Botany Department of Harvard, precipitated wide discussions in 1918 by averring that food could be obtained from sunlight, air,...

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