Married. Constance Speer, of Manhattan, daughter of Evangelist Robert Elliott Speer, sister of President Elliott Speer of the Northfield Schools (see p. 26); and Dr. Robert F. Barbour of Edinburgh, Scotland; in Lakeville, Conn.
Married. John Van Ryn, Davis cup tennis player, and Marjorie ("Midge") Gladman, onetime women's intercollegiate tennis champion; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Married. Gopal Singh Khalsa, Ghandite, one of three representatives in the U. S. of the Indian National Congress; and one Irene Hall, 20, University of Colorado coed; in Denver.
Sued for Divorce. John Harriman of Manhattan, youthful son of Banker Oliver Harriman, nephew of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; by Mrs. Anna Foley Harriman, of Richmond, Va., formerly Mrs. Louis de L'Aigle Munds. Charge: that he had been "notoriously unfaithful."
Honored. Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, 66; with the John Fritz medal, top honor of the engineering profession; by the American Societies of Civil, Mining & Metallurgical, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He built his country's War fleet (800 vessels in four years, a record).*
Honored. Dr. Harvey Williams dishing, famed Boston surgeon, brain authority: with the 1930 Montclair Yale Bowl (trophy awarded annually to a Yale alumnus who "has made his 'Y' in life"); by the Montclair, N. J. Yale Club.
Awarded. To Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 71, feminist; by Pictorial Review: $5,000 for being "the U. S. woman who contributed most to her country in the year 1929."
Elected. Charles Allerton Coolidge, Boston architect, Harvard 1881, to be president of the Harvard Alumni Association, succeeding John Pierpont Morgan, class of 1889.
Resigned. Jackson Alpheus Graves, president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Los Angeles; from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Reason: "Disgust at the action of the chamber in tendering a reception to W. R. Hearst."
Died. Congressman Otis Theodore Wingo, Democrat, 53, of De Queen, Ark.; after a gallbladder operation; in Baltimore.
Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together to have room for his mass studio parties which have become Manhattan legend.