Milestones: Jun. 7, 1926

Engaged. Miss Kaatje Vandyk, height 7 ft. 11 in., to Jan van Albert, height 7 ft. 11 1/2 in.; at Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. She weighs 349 1/2 lb., he 168.

Married. Miss. Ailsa Mellon, daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury; to D. K. E. Bruce. (See p. 6, “And Everything.”)

Married. Miss Elinor Loomis Sullivan of Manhattan; to Frederick Whiley Hilles, recently appointed an instructor at Yale, son of Charles Dewey Hilles, famed Republican.

Married. Angela Elvira Machado, daughter of President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba, to Jose Emilio Obregon y Blanco; at Havana.

Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University’s President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of “Judge” Lovett, famed railway magnate.

Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. H. S. Glendenning, adopted daughter of famed capitalist Alfred I. du Pont; one Harold Sanford Glendenning, onetime Rhodes Scholar, son of a Norwalk, Conn., mail carrier; at Reno, Nev.

Divorce. By the onetime Nancy Lane, daughter of the late Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; one Philip C. Kauffman, wealthy resident of Washington, D. C. She is rumored to have obtained $100 a month alimony and $150 a month for the support of her four-year-old son; to be employed as understudy to a Manhattan actress.

Died. Royall Victor, 48, famed Manhattan corporation lawyer; of heart failure while racing his sloop Snookabus, off Oyster Bay.

Died. William B. Clover, 56, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, onetime reporter for the Cleveland Press and correspondent of the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers, organizer of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Samuel F. Patterson, 58, famed cotton manufacturing industrialist developer of the manufacturing towns of Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary, N. C.; at Roanoke Rapids.

Died. Ng Ah Foon, 61, friend of “bosses” “Big Tim” Sullivan and Tom Foley, for three decades race-track betting commissioner to Manhattan’s “Chinatown”; in Manhattan of diabetes.

Died. Rev. Dr. Wallace Buttrick, 72, onetime President of the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Baltimore, Md.

Died. Ivan Andre Bogdanoff, onetime Russian cavalryman, Senior in the Sheffield Scientific School, through which he was working his way by laboring in off hours at the Winchester Arms Plant; at New Haven, Conn., of heart disease, resulting from war activities.

Died. Sir John Williams, 86, accoucheur at the birth of Edward now Prince of Wales, Emeritus Professor of Midwifery at University College, London; at Aberystwyth, Wales.

Died. “General” Simon Petlura, onetime President of the short-lived Ukranian Republic (March to November, 1921), vacillating ally of the illfated anti-Bolshevist commanders Denikin and Wrangel; at Paris, after being shot five times by one Samuel Schwartzbar, “a Russian,” who allegedly assassinated him in revenge for his onetime oppression of Ukranian Jews.

Buried. Frank A. Munsey, late famed Manhattan publisher (TIME, Jan. 4, MILESTONES), in the cemetery of his native village, Lisbon Falls, Me., after reposing in a vault at Woodlawn Cemetery, Manhattan, for the last five months.