Engaged. Paul Revere, great-great-grandson of the famed horseman, of Boston; to Dorothy Frances Brown of Brookline, Mass.

Engaged. Ralph Pulitzer Jr., Manhattan newsman, son of President Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World; to Bessie Catherine Aspinwall of Pasadena, Calif., great granddaughter of the late Capitalist Moses Taylor.

Engaged. Princess Marie Louise d' Orleans, daughter of the Duc de Vendome, niece of King Albert of Belgium; to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. of Manhattan & Paris.

Engaged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., since the retirement of Devereux Milburn most famed of U. S. poloists, Wartime flyer who was shot down behind German lines and later escaped from Germany, socially prominent resident of Long Island & Aiken, S. C.; to Mrs. Margaret Mellon Laughlin, daughter of Banker William Larimer Mellon, grandniece of Andrew William Mellon, relict of Alexander Laughlin Jr., late President of the Central Tube Co. of Pittsburgh. On June 12, 1926, Mr. Laughlin had an appointment with his dentist, said goodbye to Mrs. Laughlin. She next heard that he had died while under the dentist's anesthetic.

Married. Charles Coudert Nast, son of smart Publisher Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); to Charlotte Babcock Brown, Manhattan scioness; in Manhattan.

Married. Sigourney Thayer of Manhattan, spasmodic theatrical producer, Wartime aviator, Atlantic Monthly poet, socially prominent jokesmith, son of Rev. William Greenough Thayer, headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass.; to Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket.

Married. Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan cosmopolite, recently divorced by Mrs. Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt Baker, thrice-married turfwoman (TIME, Oct. 15); to Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late auto-tycoon Horace E. Dodge, who recently divorced James H. R. Cromwell, Manhattan banker; in Manhattan.

Married. Elizabeth Brite Shevlin of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed Yale Footballer Thomas L. Shevlin; to Paul Morton Smith, son of the present Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the famed Manhattan banker; in Greenwich, Conn., secretly last April, when Mr. Smith was a Yale undergraduate.

Sued for Divorce. Noah H. Beery Jr., cinema villain (Beau Geste) of Los Angeles; by Mrs. Marguerite W. L. Beery, who charges that Villain Beery continued his "villainous conduct" at home.

Divorced. Henry Coleman Drayton of Manhattan & Newport, socially prominent cousin of Yachtsman William Vincent Astor; by Mrs. Catherine Livingston Hamersley Drayton. Said Mrs. Drayton: "He fell asleep constantly at dinners, teas, bridge, the opera -- everywhere we went to gether. ... I finally became hysterical. . . ."

Divorced. Dr. R. Bartow Read, Manhattan medico; by Hope Waldron Williams, socially prominent Manhattan comedienne (Paris Bound, Holiday).

Elected. Dr. James Harvey Robinson (The Mind in the Making), of Manhattan; to be President of the American Historical Association. A campaign was announced to raise $1,000,000 for historical research, the money to be got under the direction of Ivy Lee.

Enthroned. Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 64, the 79th successor to St. Augustine as Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus ecclesiastical head of the Church of England, with royal pomp and circumstance in the historic cathedral of his See. Long intimate friend, honorary chaplain of Queen Victoria, persistent and smiling bachelor in spite of her advice to marry, Dr. Lang was most recently Archbishop of York.

Resigned. U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont of Delaware; from the Senate, because of poor health.

Died. Jaime Martinez Del Rio, divorced husband of Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio (Ramona); from blood poisoning; in Berlin (see p. 47).

Died. Dr. Alexander Alexandrovitch Maximow, 54, famed anatomist, blood & tissue specialist of the University of Chicago (since 1922), onetime member of the Imperial Military Academy of Medicine in Petrograd, whose escape from Bolshevist Russia with his wife and sister ended in a flight on a smugglers' sled across the Gulf of Finland; of heart disease; in Chicago.

Died. Edward Jones Pearson, 65, since 1917 President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., potent force in its post-War rehabilitation; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore.

Died. Bashford Dean, 61, famed ichthyologist and armorist (see p. 34); at Battle Creek, Mich.

Died. Dr. C. E. Hemingway, 67, of Oak Park, Ill.; father of famed expatriate author Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), chronic diabetic; by suicide; in Oak Park.

Died. James A. Patten, 76, wheat king; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. (see p. 36).

Died. Alice Mary Longfellow, 78, eldest daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by his second wife Frances Elizabeth Appleton; at the Longfellow family home, "Craigie House," in Cambridge, Mass. Miss Longfellow spent most of her life in the interest of women's education, as a founder and adviser of Radcliffe College ("Harvard Annex"). As a daughter of one of the most famed of Boston "Brahmins" her literary connections were many. She was the last survivor of a dinner party given in 1868 at Boston's old Parker House by Charles Dickens. But her memory will be most sharply recalled by the haunting image of her girlhood in her father's "The Children's Hour":

From my study I see in the lamplight

Descending the broad hall stair,

Grave Alice and laughing Allegra,

And Edith with golden hair.

Edith Longfellow died in 1915 as the wife of able Boston Lawyer Richard Henry Dana, son of Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast). Annie (Allegra) Longfellow remains, is the wife of Boston Lawyer Joseph G. Thorp.

Died. Charles Caryl Coleman, 88, famed U. S. artist, native of Buffalo, veteran of the Union Army, who for 50 years has lived and painted on the Mediterranean island of Capri; at Capri. Buffalo. Detroit, Brooklyn, St. Louis & Louisville museums have his works.