Married. Bina Day Deneen, 24, daughter of U. S. Senator and Illinois Boss Charles Samuel Deneen; and Thomas House IV, 27, nephew of Wilsonian Adviser Col. Edward Mandell House; last month; in Covington, Ky.
Seeking Divorce. Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), caricaturist; from Mrs. Lois Long Arno, New Yorker writer (''Lipstick"); in Reno.
Seeking Divorce. Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., executive commander of the Crusaders (anti-Prohibition organization), son of Board Chairman Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust Co., stepson of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin who is chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform; from Mrs. Ruth Ogden Sabin; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.
Divorced. Mrs. Florence Davenport Rice Smith, comely daughter of Sportswriter Grantland Rice; from Sydney Andrew Smith. Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Charge: cruelty. Mrs. Smith denied reports that she planned to marry Artist Peter Arno (see above).
Divorced. Joe Cook (Joseph Lytell Cook, born Joseph Lopez), stage and cinema funnyman; from Mrs. Beatrice Helen Reynolds Cook, onetime vaudeville actress; secretly, last month; in Newark, N. J. Named: Edward Mewing, his neighbor at Lake Hopatcong, N. J.
Honored. Martha McChesney Berry, founder of the Berry Schools for mountain children at Mount Berry, Ga., protégée of President Theodore Roosevelt; with the third annual medal of Manhattan's Town Hall Club for "an accomplishment of lasting merit."* Other nominees for the award: Author Newton Booth Tarkington. Producer Daniel Frohman, Playwright Marcus Cook Connelly, Banker George Foster Peabody.
Retired. Thomas Bucklin Wells, 56, from the editorship of Harpers Magazine and the board-chairmanship of Harper & Bros., publishers. Editor Wells had been associated with Harper & Bros, since 1899, three years after his graduation from Yale. In 1919 he succeeded the late famed Henry Mills Alden as editor of the magazine. He functioned as general literary adviser in Harpers' book publishing, led the firm's financial rehabilitation in 1921-24.
Willed. By the late George Fisher Baker (TIME, May 11) : $60,000,000 to his son George Fisher Baker Jr.; $5,000,000 to his daughter Mrs. Howard Bligh St. George; $5,000,000 to his daughter Mrs. William Goadby Loew. To charity he left $550,000; to his secretary $25,000; to faithful servants, $68,500.* To his granddaughter, Florence Loew, he willed his country place at Tuxedo, New York.
The size of the Baker estate caused surprise, as it had been estimated at $150,000,000. The drop to some $75,000,000 was explained by the transfer of many securities to George Fisher Baker Jr., including 10,000 shares of First National Bank with a market value of $35,000,000. The market decline caused other great shrinkage. In 1929, with his Steel holdings worth $22,000,000, his First National holdings worth $8,500 a share. Banker Baker's wealth may well have neared the monster figure of a quarter-billion dollars.