Monday, Dec. 03, 1934

Engaged. Sarah Brisbane, daughter of Hearstman Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr., Yaleman (1932), onetime editor of the Yale Record, onetime New York World-Telegram copy boy, now sportswriter for The Literary Digest.

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Married. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia lawyer, son of the late Edward William Bok; and Nellie Lee Holt, religious educator, of Falls City, Neb.; in Falls City.

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Married. Johnson Olin Couch, son of Arkansas' Harvey Crowley Couch (see p. 53); and Anna Trimble of Shreveport, La.; in Shreveport.

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Married. Lieut. Francesco Agello, Italian aviator; and Gianna Maneti, his childhood sweetheart; in Milan. A promotion from Sergeant Major, granted him after he established a new world's speed record of 440.6759 m.p.h. last October (TIME, Nov. 5), enabled Aviator Agello to marry.

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Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome.

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Divorced-- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME, Nov. 26).

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Died. Abraham Spencer Freeman, 24, son of Sydney Freeman of London's famed betting commissioners "Duggie's" (Douglas Stuart, Ltd.); in a motor accident; in London. Acting for his father, he bought up $300,000 worth of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes tickets in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 12).

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Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam.

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Died. Charles Raymond Macauley, 63, newspaper cartoonist; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 40 years of cartooning for many a newspaper including the New York World and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Macauley popularized Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick," won a $500 Pulitzer Prize (1929) for "Paying For a Dead Horse"--a drawing of a dead horse, a rider staggering under a burden labeled "Reparations."

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Died. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 79, British playwright (Trelawney of the Wells and 53 others); after an operation; in London. He shocked London with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, helped shake the British theatre out of its pre-Ibsen fustiness.

*Count de Chambrun's brother, Jacques-Adalbert, was born in Washington, married Clara Longworth, sister of the late famed Speaker Nicholas Longworth.

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