Born. To Mrs. Max Foster (Lois Wilbur) Hopper, daughter of U. S. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur; a daughter; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Nancy Jane.

Born. To Freeman ("Amos") Gosden, blackface broadcaster, teammate of Charles ("Andy") Correll; a daughter. Weight: 5 Ibs. Name: Virginia Marie.

Engaged. Mrs. Elinor Priscilla Kershaw Ince, 45, relict of pioneer Cinema Producer Thomas Harper Ince; and Holmes Herbert, 47, cinemactor. Producer Ince's will left her $1,600,000 provided she did not remarry for seven years. He died in 1924, reputedly of angina pectoris, having been stricken while yachting with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Cinemactress Marion Davies and others.

Married. Edda Mussolini, 19, daughter of Benito Mussolini; and Count Galeazzo Ciano; in Rome.

Divorced. George Sunday, son of Evangelist William ("Hit-the-Sawdust-Trail") Sunday; by Mrs. Harriet May Sunday. Uncontested charges: he drank excessively, hit her, associated with other women.

Birthday. Charles Townsend Copeland, A. B. (his only earned degree), Harvard professor of English, bachelor, given to mustard suits, to scolding, to reading-aloud (Kipling, Dickens) to two generations of devoted undergraduates. Age: 70. Date: April 27. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The men . . . knew that 'Copey' was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. . . . How the man could teach!"

Died. Mrs. Guy Bates Post (Adele Ritchie), 55, oldtime (1893-1918) musical comedy actress (Floradora), onetime wife of Actor Guy Bates Post; and her friend and hostess, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, 32; in a double shooting; at Laguna Beach, Calif. Police thought Mrs. Post shot Mrs. Palmer after a quarrel, then spent two hours shopping, trying to calm herself before she returned to the scene of murder, shot herself.

Died. Aleck Smith, 58, bluff oldtime golf professional, U. S. open champion in 1906 and 1910, adviser of Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones, Glenna Collett, Jerome ("Jerry") Travers, Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser; after a month's treatment in a private sanitorium; at Baltimore.

Born in golf-famed Carnoustie, Scotland, one of five golfing brothers (Willie, George, James, Macdonald), he came to the U. S. in 1897 and became, with Willie Anderson, Ben and Gilbert ("Gil") Nicholls, one of the game's U. S. quartet of Grand Old Men. Witty, violent, robust, strong-tongued, he was a great teacher. He loved to recall the time when a golf-bag was an object of ridicule. "Do I look like a sissy? Well, that's what they called me!"

Died. Dr. John Carlton Jones, 74, president-emeritus of University of Missouri, oldtime classicist, philosopher; from cerebral hemorrhage; at Daytona Beach.

Died. Elmer T. McCleary, president of the newly organized Republic Steel Corp. (TIME, Dec. 30); after an intestinal operation; at Youngstown, Ohio.

Died. William S. Verity, 97, who, in love and tubercular, was told by the late famed Editor Horace Greeley to marry and "go west, young man, go west"; of old age; at Evanston, Ill.

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