Born, To John Chipman Farrar, Manhattan publisher (Farrar & Rinehart), and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar: a daughter (they have a son, John Jr., 6; a daughter, Alison, 4); in Manhattan. Name: Janice Petherbridge.
Engaged, Barren Gift Collier Jr., son of the car-card tycoon who last month sought a "moratorium" on $13,500,000 of debts (TIME, June 12); and Barbara May, Manhattan socialite.
Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; and Ruth Googins, 23, of Fort Worth, Tex.; in Burlington, Iowa (see p. 9).
Married. Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, 36, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which was adapted the 1929 Pulitzer Prize Play, The Green Pastures; and Mary Rose Sciarra Himler. 33, mother of his year-old son; in El Paso, Tex., two days after Author Bradford divorced in Mexico his first wife Lydia Sehorn Bradford, longtime tuberculosis patient in Arizona.
Married, John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, sportsman-explorer, divorced month ago by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden (TIME, July 10); and Frances Yeaton, 21, his secretary; in Muskegon, Mich.
Married— Anna Blair Thornton, daughter of the late Sir Henry Thornton, onetime president of Canadian National Railways; and Dr. Winston F. Harrison of Montreal and Manhattan; at the home of the bride's mother. Lady Virginia Thornton, near Bowmansdale, Pa.
Marriage Revealed. Helen Morgan, 28, torch singer; and Maurice ("Bud") Maschke Jr., Harvard Law School graduate, son of onetime Republican National Committeeman Maurice Maschke of Ohio; last May in New Castle, Pa.
Divorced. By Douglas Chandor, British painter (TIME covers in 1929-31): Pamela Chandor, by an interlocutory decree giving the father custody of their daughter, Jill, 13, and forbidding Mrs. Chandor to remarry during his lifetime; in Manhattan. Grounds: while Painter Chandor was busy in the U. S., she lived for two years in England with the Hon. Douglas Beauchamp, British sportsman. Left. By Edwin Gould, second son of the late famed financier Jay Gould: $20,000,000 (estimated); half to his wife Sarah Cantine Schrady Gould, the balance (except for small miscellaneous bequests) to the Edwin Gould Foundation for children; income from the Foundation's share fo be paid to Sarah Gould during her life.
Died. Kenneth McKenzie, 22, University of Southern California javelin thrower; of freezing and crushing when he, exploring an ice cave with his fiancée, her mother and sister, was caught in a fall of snow & ice from the roof; in Sequoia National Forest, Calif.
Died. Charles Howard Kline, 62, one-time Mayor of Pittsburgh, convicted last year of official malfeasance; of apoplexy; in Pittsburgh. A florid, prognathous man with a taste for flashy clothes, he was the only Pittsburgh mayor to serve two successive terms under the city's present charter (which dates from 1903).
Died. William Wallace Cook, 66, prolific fictionist, called "the man who deforested Canada" because of the avalanche of stories he fed into the pulp-magazine mill; after long illness; in Marshall, Mich. In 1916 as "Burt L. Standish" he took over the famed Frank Merriwell series created years before by William Gilbert Patten, kept it going a few years more. In 1927 he published "Plotto," an inexhaustible mine of skeleton plots for authors-in-a-hurry.