Milestones, Oct. 9, 1933

Engaged. Dorothy R. Fell, 20, daughter of the late John R. Fell, socialite sportsman and banker who died of a knife wound in Java last winter (TIME, March 6). and of Dorothy Randolph Fell Mills (wife of President Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury Mills); and Woolworth Donahue, 18, 5¢ & 10¢ heir (grandson).

Married. Alida Douglas Robinson, 18, Manhattan socialite, daughter of one-time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, grandniece of the late Theodore Roosevelt and the late John Jacob Astor; and Kenneth S. Walker, Harvard graduate; in Hyde Park, N. Y., birthplace of her mother, whose late father, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, was half-brother to President Roosevelt (who attended).

Married. William Roger Burlingame, writer, son of the late Edward Livermore Burlingame, first and longtime (1887-1914) editor of Scribner’s Magazine, grandson of Lincoln’s Minister to China, Anson Burlingame; and Angeline Davis (Ann Watkins), Manhattan book & play broker; in Syosset, L. I.

Married. Henry Louis (“Lou”) Gehrig, 30, “iron man” first baseman of the New York Yankees, holder of the major league record for consecutive games played (TIME. Aug. 28); and Eleanor Grace Twitchell, 27, University of Wisconsin graduate, daughter of a retired Chicago restaurateur; in New Rochelle, N. Y.

Divorced. Victor Emanuel, 35, president of U. S. Electric Power Corp., turfman (his entry ran third in last summer’s Epsom Derby); by Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff Emanuel; in Reno. Grounds: desertion.

Left. By Edward Severin Clark, Singer Sewing Machine scion: $30,000,000; the most part to two of his three brothers (all four shared the $120,000,000 estate of their father, Alfred Corning Clark, son of Singer Partner Edward Clark); the rest to other relatives, friends, charity.

Died. William Lawrence (“Young”) Stribling, 28, heavyweight prizefighter; following a motor crash; in Macon, Ga. Stribling was motorcycling to a hospital to see his wife and two-week-old baby when an automobile sideswiped him. He suffered a crushed pelvis, had to have his left foot amputated. Last fortnight he fought his 340th and final fight at Houston, getting a newspaper decision over Light-heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom.

Died. Frank Henry Schrenk, 46, president of Philadelphia’s North City Trust Co., chairman of the National Depositors’ Committee seeking to release frozen accounts; by his own hand (pistol); in Philadelphia.

Died. Ringgold Wilmer (“Ring”) Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in “No Visitors, N.Y.,” his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his “You Know Me Al” stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was “the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced.” An owl-eyed, saturnine man, given to one-word epigrams, he was once asked for his list of the ten most beautiful English words. His list: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene.

Died. Sir Graeme Thomson, 58, Governor of Ceylon; in Colombo, Ceylon. As Wartime director of British shipping, he moved some 1,000,000 men by sea without mishap, was called “the greatest transport officer since Noah.”

Died. James William Collier, U. S. Tariff Commissioner, twelve times U. S. Representative from Mississippi’s 8th District, chairman last year of the House’s potent Ways & Means Committee; of heart disease; on his 61st birthday, in Washington.

Died. Alice Muriel Livingston Williamson, 64, U. S.-born writer; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in a hotel in Bath, England. Her most lucrative book, The Lightning Conductor, was published in 1905. After her husband and collaborator died in 1920 she, believing his spirit aided her still, continued to sign her work “C. N. & A. M. Williamson.”

Died. Charles Landon Knight, 66, retired editor-publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal, called the ”last of Ohio’s great personal journalists,” onetime (1921-23) member of Congress, onetime editor of Woman’s Home Companion; after long illness; in Akron.

Died. Brigham Henry Roberts, 76, president of the First Council of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon); of diabetes complications; in Salt Lake City. Elected to Congress in 1898, he was refused a seat by a 5-to-1 House vote because he was an avowed polygamist.

Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, “Oak Hill,” in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to “smell” coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess of Thurn & Taxis, for an accounting of her father’s estate.