Engaged. Marilyn Miller, 32, actress, Sally, Sunny, Rosalie; and one Michael Farmer, of London, Paris; at Manhattan. Twice married (Frank Carter, killed; Jack Pickford, divorced), she said her new fiance was "wealthy and an Irishman."

Elected. Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Board Chairman of E. I. duPont deNemours & Co.; to succeed Irenee duPont, retired.

Birthday. J. H. Taylor, five times open golf champion of Great Britain; at London. Age: 60. Date: March 19. He announced his retirement from championship golf.

Birthday. Robert Tyre Jones, thrice U. S. open golf champion, four times U. S. amateur champion, twice British open champion; at Atlanta, Ga. Age: 28. Date, March 17.

Birthday. Andrew William Mellon. Secretary of the Treasury of the U. S.; at Washington. Age: 75. Date: March 24.

Died. Walter Herbert Eckersall, 46. famed onetime (1903-06) University of Chicago halfback, sports writer, football referee; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Footballer Eckersall in his days of gridiron fame never weighed more than 145 pounds. In 1903 when Chicago beat Wisconsin 15-6, he made all of Chicago's points with field goals. Dying, he mumbled something about a 20-yard gain.

Died. James J. Campbell. 62, Pittsburgh steelman; at Pasadena, Calif. His first job: painting cannon balls in front of the Washington arsenal. His last: vice president of Carnegie Steel Co. He was no kin of President James A. Campbell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

Died. Edward Nelson Dingley, 67, economist, adviser to the U. S. Senate's Finance Committee; at Washington; of a malignant growth in the throat. Son of the late, tariff-writing Representative Nelson Dingley Jr. of Maine, he wrote many a magazine article on the tariff, was active in Michigan politics, formerly published the Kalamazoo Telegraph, the Kalamazoo Press. Early this winter the Senate Lobby Committee revealed that Mr. Dingley had received from the American Tariff League $1,541 for supplying research information on tariff activities and for contributing unsigned articles to the league's American Economist (TIME, Feb. 3).

Died. Anna Parker Lowell. 72, wife of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University; at Cambridge, Mass.; after long illness from a throat affliction.

Died. Arthur James Balfour, Si, first Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Whittingehame, famed British statesman; at Woking, Surrey; after a long illness (see p. 22).

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