Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938

Engaged. Dr. Elinor Whitney Fosdick, 26, daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick, radio preacher of Manhattan’s Riverside Church; to Dr. Roger Sherman Downs, 27; in Rochester, N. Y. Both Drs. Fosdick & Downs are internes in Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital.

Engaged, Ishbel Allan MacDonald. 55, onetime (1924, 1929-35) hostess at No. 10 Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman (“Tinker”) Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician’s helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen’s band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England.

Died, Honore Palmer Jr.. 29. artist, grandson of Chicago’s late great Merchant Potter Palmer; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered during setting up exercises; in Manhattan.

Died. Kevin Butler. 33. son of U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Pierce Butler; of injuries suffered when he fell through a Pullman car lavatory window at “Devil’s Bend.” one of Pennsylvania Railroad’s sharpest curves; at Greensburg, Pa.

Died, Oscar Odd (“O. O.”) Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk—for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others—in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material in a Rolls-Royce. Part of his legacy: 50 columns written in advance.

Died. Francis Gladheim Pease, 57, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory; after an intestinal operation; in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Pease, who was one of the first to measure the diameters of stars, designed a 100-inch telescope, completed the experiments of Chicago University’s Albert Abraham Michelson in light-speed calibration.

Died-Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, U.S.N., retired, 59; personal physician to Presidents Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson; of anemia and respiratory infection; in Washington, D. C. A few hours before death came, Roosevelt II called at Admiral Grayson’s home, was not allowed to see his good friend whom he named chairman of the American Red Cross in 1935-Died. Prince Nicholas of Greece, 66, uncle of Greece’s King George II, father of Britain’s Duchess of Kent; of a stroke; in Athens. In impoverished exile in Paris, 1924-35, he improved his time with oil painting, occasionally showing as “M. Nicholas Leprince.”

Died. George Fulmer Getz, 72, Chicago coalman, onetime (1933-36) treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla.

Died. Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, 72, Russian sculptor; in Pallanza, Italy. Prince Paul first won recognition with an equestrian statue—a Red Indian modeled from a “Buffalo Bill” Cody Wild West Show in Milan in 1894.

Died. Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger, 77, mother of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; widow of the late Philanthropist Cyrus L. Sulzberger; herself an active social worker (United Neighborhood Houses, New York parks Anti-Litter Committee, Aguilar Library Association); after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Francis Peabody, 83, Boston lawyer; after long illness; in Milton, Mass. Educated in England, at Cheltenham, Cambridge, and Lincoln’s Inn, London, Peabody returned to lead Massachusetts’ legal, social, sporting life for 50 years. He co-founded Norfolk and Myopia Hunt Clubs, the Brookline Country Club, the Nahant Club.

Died. James A. Ten Eyck, 86, since 1903 rowing coach at Syracuse University; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami, Fla. A professional oarsman whose first sliding seat was greased leather sewn on his trunks, Ten Eyck once rowed his wife around Manhattan, at 65 rowed from Syracuse to Albany to prove his fitness, at 80 rowed in shells with men young enough to be his great-grandsons.