Milestones, Aug. 27, 1934

Married— Ellen Emerson, great-grand-daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson; and Robert M. Delaney, 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner in musical composition (“John Brown’s Body”); in Concord, Mass.

Married— Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, 24, third son of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary French, 24, granddaughter of the late Frederick Billings, onetime president of Northern Pacific Railroad; in Woodstock, Vt.

Married— Mildred Hall, 29, secretary to Mrs. Herbert Hoover; and Thomas Allen Campbell. 33, Los Angeles school teacher, son of onetime Governor of Arizona Thomas Edward Campbell; in Palo Alto.

Married— Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (“Joan” in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan); and Frank Walker Wheeler, assistant to the president of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; in Manhattan. Marriage Revealed. Natacha Rambova, onetime wife of Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino; and Don Alvaro de Urzaiz, Spanish nobleman; 18 months ago; in Palma, Mallorca.

Divorced— Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 50, onetime head of Republic Steel Corp.; by Margaret House Eaton; in Akron, Ohio.

Died— Mrs. Eleanor Foster Lansing, 68, daughter of John Watson Foster. Secretary of State under President Harrison, widow of Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Wilson; of a heart attack; in Henderson Harbor, N. Y.

Died— Henry Thomas Rainey, 73, Speaker of the House of Representatives; of angina pectoris following pneumonia; in St. Louis. A white-shocked farmer-lawyer from Carrollton, Ill., he was elected to Congress in 1902, served every ensuing term but one (1921-23). Elected Speaker by House Democrats in March 1933, he pushed through the early bills of the Roosevelt Administration, kept a blacklist of Representatives who voted anti-Administration (see p. 9).

Died— Frank Evans Seagrave, 74, astronomer who accurately predicted the reappearance of Halley’s comet in 1910, the time and duration of the 1932 total solar eclipse; after an operation for intestinal cancer; in Providence. R. I. In 1882 he made important astronomical news by photographing the transit of Venus.

Died— Albert Blake Dick, 78, inventor of the mimeograph, chairman of the board of A. B. Dick Co.; of heart disease; in Lake Forest, Ill. He originated stencil printing, founded A. B. Dick Co., manufacturers of mimeographs and office equipment, 50 years ago.