Engaged, Robert Dollar II, 24, grandson of the late Captain Robert Dollar (founder of the Dollar Steamship Lines); to Charlotte Eudora Dean, daughter of Sacramento, Calif. City Manager James S. Dean; in Sacramento. Grandson Dollar works for the family steamship lines, now headed by Robert Stanley Dollar, his uncle.
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, divorced wife of Elliott Roosevelt; to Curtin Winsor, 31, student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music; in Philadelphia. Mrs. Winsor, divorced from the President's second son in July. 1933, after a marriage of a year and a half, has custody of their son, William Donner Roosevelt, 4.
Married. Winifred Birkin War,. London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales.
Married. John Dwight Winston Churchill, son of Novelist Winston Churchill; to Mrs. Katharine Emmet Canfield, niece of the late U. S. Minister to Austria, Grenville Temple Emmet; at Glen Cove, L. I.
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Faye Lippmann; from Pundit Walter Lippmann; charging extreme cruelty; in Bradenton, Fla. Said Mrs. Lippmann's petition: "Lippmann is shrewd and quick in his mental processes, commands a vocabulary practically unlimited, is a facile veteran in the use of invective and development of criticism, a phase of his equipment that he constantly uses in administering verbal punishment on complainant."
Honored. Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, singer; with a Ph.D.; for "eminence" in the field of entertainment; by Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. In addition to the degree he was given the key to the city and made mayor for the day.
Died. Charles Scotto, 51, famed chef at Manhattan's Hotel Pierre; after a kidney operation; in New York City. Born in Monte Carlo, he was in his youth a close friend and favorite pupil of famed French Chef Auguste Escoffier, lived to become president of the American Culinary Federation, parent organization of all U. S. chef and gourmet societies.
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican and one of the first big businessmen to speak out sternly against the 18th Amendment.