Born. To Frank Couzens, 31, Mayor of Detroit, son of Michigan's Senator James Couzens; and Margaret Lang Couzens; a third son, sixth child; in Detroit. Weight: 10 Ib. 8 oz. Engaged. Grace Green Roosevelt, 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. 28. Baltimore architect, yachtsman, big-game hunter. Engaged. Edith Cummings, 34, one-time (1923) women's national golf champion, equestrienne and big game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson, 41, War veteran, mining engineer; in Chicago. Married. Aidan Roark, Irish-born po loist, back on last summer's victorious Western team (TIME, Aug. 21); and Esther Foss Moore, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Carmel Valley, Calif. Seeking Divorce. Hubert Prior ("Rudy'') Vallee, 32, crooner, bandleader; from Fay Webb Vallee, actress, daughter of Santa Monica, Calif.'s Police Chief Clarence E. Webb. Fay Webb first sought an injunction to restrain her husband from seeking divorce in Mexico. That was denied. Then she sued for separate maintenance, charging misconduct with three women, vicious temper, vile language, character assassination. Crooner Vallee countered with affidavits reciting spicy telephone chats between Fay Webb and Garfield ("Gary") Leon, adagio dancer. Separated. John Gilbert, 36, film actor; and Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself Moran and was Mack's "feeder" in half a dozen Broadway shows and in the famed "Two Black Crows." Died. Paul Kochanski, 46, violinist; of abdominal disorders; in Manhattan. Born in Warsaw, he made a debut at 11, another in London at 19, joined the Warsaw Conservatory faculty at 21, succeeded Leopold Auer as head Professor of Violin at Petrograd Conservatory seven years later. In the U. S. he became head Professor of Violin at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, dedicated his Caprice to Charles Lindbergh.

Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin."

Died. Walker Downer Hines, 63, international lawyer, onetime (1919-20) Director General of U. S. railroads; of apoplexy; in a Merano, Italy sanatorium. In 1925 he investigated navigation on the Danube and Rhine for the League of Nations. Last June he headed a group of economists to help Turkey formulate an economic program, fell ill in July.

Died. George E. Miller, 75, president of North American Newspaper Alliance (news service) which he helped organize in 1922, longtime (1918-33) editor of the Detroit News; of pneumonia; in Mexico City.

Died, Aimaro Sato, 77, onetime (1916-18) Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., sometime Minister to The Netherlands, Mexico and Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, DePauw University graduate; of arteriosclerosis; in Tokyo.

*The other three: Margaret Carry (now Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy Jr.). Ginevra King (Mrs. William Hamilton Mitchell), Courtney Letts (Senora Felipe A. Espil, wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U. S.).

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