Milestones: Aug. 13, 1928

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Engaged. Princess Ida, 51, legless, one-handed Coney Island freak; to Thomas Kelly, 51, owner of the Coney Island scooter ride. Plans for the wedding celebration included an exhibition of the varsity drag by the fat girl and the skinny man, and a fencing match between the sword swallower and the tattooed lady.

Engaged. Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden; to Estelle Romaine Manville, Manhattan debutante, descendant of Jeoffrey de Magnavil, ally of William the Conqueror; in Pleasantville, N. Y.

Married. Ralph Pulitzer, 49, president and editor of the New York World; and Margaret Leech, novelist (The Back of the Book, Tin Wedding); in Manhattan.

Married. Amelia Vauclain, granddaughter of President Samuel V. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive works; and Francis Tatnal of Germantown, Pa.; in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Married. Mrs. Josephine Lanier Jones, great-great-granddaughter of Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, granddaughter of Poet Sidney Lanier; and Russell Blake Livermore, lawyer (Livermore & Livermore); in Manhattan.

Married. Leila Stuart Holt, daughter of President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College, and Maurice Rotival, son of French Railroadman Paul Rotival; at Woodstock, Conn.

Married. The Right Hon. John Henry Whitley, 62, onetime (1921-28) Speaker of the British House of Commons who last month, retiring from the House, refused a peerage (TIME, July 9); and Helen Clarke, social worker; in London.

Married. Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann, 28, son of famed playwright Gerhart Hauptmann; and Princess Elise of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Dwasieden Castle, near Sassnitz, Germany.

Married. Tom Heeney; 29, recent unsuccessful contender for the heavyweight championship of the world (TIME, Aug. 6); and Mrs. Marion Dunn Hyde, 30, model and saleswoman of Port Washington, L. I.; in Lodentown, N. Y.

Appointed. The Right Rev. William Temple, 46, Bishop of Manchester, to succeed the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang as Archbishop of York. (See p. 30).

Died. Mrs. William H. Martin, mother of John S. Martin, associate Editor of TIME; in Manhattan after a long illness.

Died. Mrs. Jule Blanche Edwards, 59, wife of U. S. Senator Edward Irving Edwards of New Jersey; after an illness of two years; in Jersey City, N.J.

Died. Edwin M. Carter, 60, Manhattan broker (Carter & Co.), since 1918 a governor of the New York Stock Exchange; of heart disease; in Allenhurst, N. J.

Died. Federal Judge David C. Westenhaver, 63, potent jurist, sentencer of the late Eugene V. Debs to prison for a seditious speech, releaser of thousands of alleged "draft dodgers" after the War; of heart disease; in Cleveland, Ohio.

Died. Brigadier General Charles Lewis Potter, 64, Army engineer, president of the Mississippi River Commission, two months after his Army retirement; after a gall-bladder operation; at St. Louis.

Died. Frank McDowell Leavitt, 72, inventor, 25 years ago, of the machine that makes tin cans, inventor of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo used by the U. S. Navy since 1918; of heart disease; at Scarsdale, N. Y.

Died. Job A. Edson, 74, president for 23 years (1905-28) of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, onetime (at 13) telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co.; of apoplexy; at Long Beach, Calif.

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