Milestones, May 23, 1932

Engaged. Aviatrix Amy Johnson, 24, (England to Australia 15 days); and Aviator James Mollison,* 26, (Australia to England 8 days 21 hr.).

Married. William Samuel Paley, 30, president of Columbia Broadcasting System; and Mrs. Dorothy Hart Hearst, 23; two weeks after she divorced Publisher Hearst’s third son John Randolph Hearst; in Kingman, Ariz. Honeymoon: Hawaii.

Married, Henrietta, daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; and John Edwards Lockwood, Manhattan lawyer.

Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Pauline Disston Wanamaker; by John Wanamaker Jr. (grandson); in Reno. Grounds: undisclosed.

Awarded. To Juan de la Cierva, Spanish inventor of the autogiro: the 1932 Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for promotion of aeronautics.

Installed. Dr. Thomas Darlington, 73, of Manhattan; as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society (Hall) to succeed the late centenarian John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Feb. 15).

Birthdays. Rev. Dr. Augustus Field Beard, 99, oldest living graduate of Yale (’57) and of Union Theological Seminary, oldest living minister of the Congregational and Christian churches; Bishop William T. Manning, 66; Henry Latham Doherty, 62 (see p. 42).

Died. William Andrews Clark III, 36, grandson of the late Montana copper tycoon and Senator, William Andrews Clark, who in 1925 left a fortune of $50,000,000; instantly, when an airplane in which he was flying a few miles from his estate near Phoenix, Ariz, plunged 2,000 ft. in a tailspin.

Died. Morris Gershwin, 62, father of Composer George and Lyric Writer Ira Gershwin, at various times a designer of women’s shoes, bookmaker, proprietor of cigar stores, billiard parlors, Turkish baths, restaurants; after long illness; in New York.

Died. Alexandre Gastaud, 63, chef and director of kitchens of .the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; of heart disease; in Manhattan. From the ship’s galley, to a Bordeaux Inn, to the great kitchen school of Escoffier in Monte Carlo’s Grand Hotel, he rose to officiate at London’s Savoy and Carlton Hotels, Paris’ Ritz and for royalty. Best known Gastaud dish on the Waldorf menu: “The Black Pot,” a highly seasoned bean stew.

Died. William Henry Todd, 64, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; a few minutes after falling downstairs in his son’s Brooklyn home. Son of a boilermaker, he lived to be called “the master shipbuilder of the Western Hemisphere.” After the War, for which he had built many scout cruisers and minesweepers, he gave $1,000,000 to the 15,000 men on his payroll. Asked if he did it to prevent labor troubles, he replied, “Hell, no! I gave it to the boys because they earned it. … You can’t buy the loyalty of labor with a million times a million.”

Died. Andreas Dippel, 65, once famed tenor and co-director (with Giulio Gatti-Casazza) of the Metropolitan Opera Company, oldtime (1910-13) director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company; of heart disease, in Los Angeles. Lately, until a street car accident put him in the hospital, he had been working in the synchronization department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Hollywood studio.

Died, Henry Barnes Tremaine, 65, president & board chairman of Aeolian Co. (pianos); after a heart attack; in Washington.

Died, Alma,Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots.

Died. Robert Dollar, 88, shipping tycoon, “Captain” through courtesy; in his San Rafael, Calif, home; of heart trouble aggravated by intestinal infection and cold. Scotland-born, he began his career as a cook’s boy in a Canadian lumber camp, later became the owner of great timber stands in California. Not until 1901, when he was 57, did he turn to the sea. His first ship was the steam schooner Newsboy, a freighter to carry his timber. Shipping fascinated him and he increased his investment, going many times to the Orient to “drum up trade” with Chinese merchants. In 1924, aged 80, he established the first round-the-world passenger-freight service on a regular schedule. Many of his maritime adventures have been idealized in the “Cappy Ricks” stories by Capt. Dollar’s fellow Californian Peter B. Kyne. Outstanding Dollar characteristics included extreme frugality, shrewdness, religious devotion. Surviving him are his widow, Margaret Proudfoot Dollar, and three sons, Alexander Melville Dollar, 54, Robert Stanley Dollar, 50, John Harold Dollar, 44. Robert Stanley Dollar has long been president of Dollar Steamship Lines.

Died. Count Chedomille Miyatovitch, 90, three times Serbian Minister to Britain; in London. In 1886, after an eight-month war, he wrote the world’s shortest peace treaty: “Peace between Serbia and Bulgaria is restored.”

*Last year reported engaged to 18-year-old Lady Diana Wellesley.