Milestones: Dec. 6, 1926

Born. To Mathilde McCormick Oser, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, a son, Peter Max, her second child, in Switzerland. She also has a daughter, now aged three.

Born. To Irving Berlin (composer) and Mrs. Berlin, a daughter, Mary Ellin, in Manhattan.

Engaged. Cecil Desmond Bernard

Harmsworth, nephew of the late Lord Northcliffe (newspapers); to Dorothy Alexander Heinlein, of Bridgeport, Ohio.

Married. Margaretta Barnwell (“Peggy”) McNeal, Philadelphia horsewoman; to W. Deering Davis, onetime Chicago, now Paris horseman; at Devon, Pa.

Married. Ann Elizabeth Cudahy, 22, granddaughter of Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr. (Chicago and later Omaha meat packer); to Raymond Anthony Glenn (“Bob Custer”), 28, cinema actor; in Hollywood, Calif.

Married. Malcolm E. Nichols, Mayor of Boston; to Carrie M. Williams, twin sister of the late Mrs. Nichols. His son Clark, aged 9, was best man; his son Dexter, 7, ringbearer; his daughter Marjorie, 4, flower girl.

Married. Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer, of Paris, niece of Washington Singer, Sheriff of Wiltshire, Eng., and of Sir Mortimer Singer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, Eng.; to Sir Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world’s output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital.

Died. Esme Howard, 22, eldest son of the Right Honorable Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; in London; after an illness of several years’ duration. The Ambassador, one of the most respected and popular in the diplomatic corps at Washington, returned to England a month ago when his son’s condition appeared critical and was with him when he died.

Died. Paul Revere Frothingham, 62, for the past 26 years pastor of Arlington Street Church, Boston (chief church of the New England Unitarian “Brahmins”); in Boston; of apoplexy.

Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d’Affaires (“Ambassador”) at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. “The Bourgeois Bolshevik,” he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was recognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d’affaires. Six thousand British Communists followed his coffin in London, 5,000 ,German Communists shouted “Hail Moscow!” as it passed through Berlin. Died. Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, 61, editor, Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal; at his desk in Memphis; of apoplexy. Thoroughly-trained journalist, bedrock Jacksonian Democrat, religious fundamentalist, his loss to the South parallels that of “Lafe” Young (TIME, Nov. 29) to Iowa.

Died. John M. Browning, 71, famed U. S. firearms inventor; at Herstals, Belg.; of heart failure following a day’s work in Belgian government laboratories, with which he was connected. His inventions from the time he was 13 never lacked a market. Son of a rifle manufacturer in Ogden, Utah, he developed in time for the Spanish-American war his Browning machine gun. Its chief features were lightness of carriage and utilization of the recoil from one shot in firing another.

Died. Frank Butler, 76, widower of markswoman Annie Oakley (“Little Sureshot”) Butler, in Ferndale, Mich., of “broken heart,” within three weeks of his wife. He was himself a onetime noted marksman, but after competing with Annie Oakley, then 16, he married her forthwith, becoming her manager.

Died. William Latimer Jones, 61, president of Jones & Laughlin, steel makers; in Pittsburgh, of pneumonia.

Died. Harry Armour, 80, British sportsman; in the saddle, at a meet in Linlithgow, Scotland. By his own direction, he was buried in full hunting dress, booted, spurred.

Died. Facundo Bacardi, 84, who with his brother, the late Emilio Bacardi, founded the-Bacardi Rum Distillery ($50,000,000 assets); in Havana, of arterio sclerosis. Despite U. S. Prohibition, he reported himself so prosperous as to be unable to meet orders from Europe, Canada, South America.

Died. Ted, brown bear; in Delaware Park Zoo, Buffalo; in a fight with his brother and 14-years’ companion, Bill. Previous disagreements (over food) had been allayed by streams of cold water played upon the combatants. The present fatality occurred just before dawn; origin of dispute unknown.