Milestones, Jun. 28, 1937

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The ceremony over, there will be a dash for cars to join the 700 other guests under a spacious striped awning on the Du Pont lawn, eight miles away. Jimmy Duffy, favorite saloonkeeper of Philadelphia's younger drinking set, will pour with his celebrated efficiency. Meyer Davis' orchestra will play the bride and bridegroom's favorite dance numbers, Too Marvelous for Words, Tea for Two, The Lovebug will Bite You and Night and Day. Some time during these festivities, Franklin and his bride will slip away to board ship for a honeymoon in Europe. Back home this autumn, they will settle down in a five-room cottage at Charlottesville, Va., where Franklin will go to the University of Virginia Law School. If the light-hearted scenario continues as it has begun, they should live happily ever afterward.

Born. To John Davison Rockefeller 3rd & Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller; a second child, a son; in New York. Name: John Rockefeller.

Engaged. Alexandrine du Pont, daughter of Powdermaker Lammot du Pont; to Howard Alfred Perkins; in Wilmington, Del.

Engaged. Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., 28, son of the late U. S. Senator, brother-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh; to Margot Loines; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Married. Cinemactors Gene Raymond, 28, & Jeanette MacDonald. 30; in Hollywood. Nelson Eddy sang I Love You Truly, Ginger Rogers was a bridesmaid, Harold Lloyd an usher and the whole thing cost $25,000.

Married. Ed Wynn, 51, comedian; to a Frieda Mierse, 25, onetime showgirl; in New York. Same day in Philadelphia, Morris Apt, 65, uncle of Funnyman Wynn, committed suicide by poison.

Marriage Revealed. Denise du Pont, adopted daughter of the late Powdermaker Alfred I. du Pont; to Harvard Graduate Student Carl Zapffe; in Cambridge, Mass.; May 22.

Died. William Patrick Connery Jr., 48, Democratic Representative from Massachusetts, co-author of the National Labor Relations Act, Chairman of the House Labor Committee; of food poisoning; in Washington.

Died. Gaston Doumergue, 73, onetime (1924, 1931) President of France, twice (1913-14, 1934) Premier of France; of an embolism; in Aigues-Vives, France.

Died. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 77, whimsical author of Peter Pan, The Little Minister, Sentimental Tommy; of bronchopneumonia; in London.

Died. Mrs. Champ Clark, 82, widow of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives, mother of U. S. Senator Bennett Champ Clark; in New Orleans.

Died. Right Rev. James Edward Cowell Welldon, 83, onetime (1898-1902) Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, onetime (1885-98) headmaster of Harrow School; at Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Among his Harrow pupils were Earl Baldwin and Winston Churchill. Bishop Welldon recently remarked, "I will probably go down in history as the headmaster of Harrow who was forced reluctantly to punish —nay, even to flog—a rebellious Winston Churchill."

*Although he received a certificate for having completed his Naval R. O. T. C. course, young Roosevelt's prolonged illness rendered him unable to pass the physical examination for the reserve ensign's commission that he normally would have received this week.

*In Baltimore last week Bridesmaid Alyse Matthews Hunneman, 20, died as a result of a fall from a horse.

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