--- description: Engaged. Sarah Brisbane, daughter of Hearstman Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr., Yaleman (1932), onetime editor of the Yale Record, onetime New York World-Telegram copy... title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 by [TIME](/author/time/) Dec 3, 1934 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Dec 3, 1934 5:00 AM CUT Engaged. Sarah Brisbane, daughter of Hearstman Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan (“Tex”) McCrary Jr., Yaleman (1932), onetime editor of the Yale Record, onetime New York World-Telegram copy boy, now sportswriter for The Literary Digest. —⊙— Married. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia lawyer, son of the late Edward William Bok; and Nellie Lee Holt, religious educator, of Falls City, Neb.; in Falls City. —⊙— Married. Johnson Olin Couch, son of Arkansas’ Harvey Crowley Couch (see p. 53); and Anna Trimble of Shreveport, La.; in Shreveport. —⊙— Married. Lieut. Francesco Agello, Italian aviator; and Gianna Maneti, his childhood sweetheart; in Milan. A promotion from Sergeant Major, granted him after he established a new world’s speed record of 440.6759 m.p.h. last October (TIME, Nov. 5), enabled Aviator Agello to marry. —⊙— Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;\* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome. —⊙— Divorced— Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME, Nov. 26). —⊙— Died. Abraham Spencer Freeman, 24, son of Sydney Freeman of London’s famed betting commissioners “Duggie’s” (Douglas Stuart, Ltd.); in a motor accident; in London. Acting for his father, he bought up $300,000 worth of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 12). —⊙— Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam. —⊙— Died. Charles Raymond Macauley, 63, newspaper cartoonist; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 40 years of cartooning for many a newspaper including the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Macauley popularized Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick,” won a $500 Pulitzer Prize (1929) for “Paying For a Dead Horse”—a drawing of a dead horse, a rider staggering under a burden labeled “Reparations.” —⊙— Died. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 79, British playwright (Trelawney of the Wells and 53 others); after an operation; in London. He shocked London with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, helped shake the British theatre out of its pre-Ibsen fustiness. \*Count de Chambrun’s brother, Jacques-Adalbert, was born in Washington, married Clara Longworth, sister of the late famed Speaker Nicholas Longworth. Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6863274/milestones-dec-3-1934/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6863274/milestones-dec-3-1934/"},"headline":"Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934","datePublished":"1934-12-03T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T18:30:19.917Z","description":"Engaged. Sarah Brisbane, daughter of Hearstman Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan (\"Tex\") McCrary Jr., Yaleman (1932), onetime editor of the Yale Record, onetime New York World-Telegram copy...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6863274/milestones-dec-3-1934/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6863274/milestones-dec-3-1934/","name":"Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934"}}]}] ```