Born, To Banker Paul Mellon, 29, son of art-collecting Andrew William Mellon (see p. 41); and Mrs. Mary Conover Brown Mellon, 32; a daughter, their first child; in Pittsburgh. Name: Catherine.

Engaged. Ella Sturgis Pillsbury, daughter of Boardchairman John Sargent Pillsbury of Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.; and Thomas Manville Crosby, son of Vice President Franklin Muzzy Crosby of General Mills, Inc. (flour) ; in Minneapolis.

Engaged James Michael ("Jim") Curley, 62, Massachusetts' outgoing Governor and Senator-reject; and a Mrs. Gertrude Casey Dennis, 44. widowed Brookline, Mass, pianist. Wedding day: Jan. 7.

Engaged. Betty Nuthall, 25, buxom English tennist, U. S. woman champion in 1930; and David Alexander Barclay, 34, secretary of British Cellophane Ltd.; in London.

Married-- Angier Biddle Duke, 21, Yale junior, son & namesake of the late tobacco tycoon who left him. $5,000,000; and Priscilla St. George, 17, Tuxedo debutante, great-granddaughter of the late Banker George Fisher Baker: in Tuxedo, N. Y.

Married-- Sam Parks Jr., 27, 1935 National Open golf champion; and Jean Davison, of Pittsburgh; in Pittsburgh.

Married-- Charles Errett Cord, elder son of Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord; and Mary Alice Mack, of Los Angeles; in Los Angeles.

Married-- Claude Benson Pepper, 36, Florida's new Towsendite-Democratic U. S. Senator; and Irene Mildred Webster, of St. Petersburg; in St. Petersburg.

Married-- Aldo Nadi, 37, of Leghorn, Italy, world's fencing champion; and Rosemary Wallace, onetime Follies girl; in Greenwich, Conn.

Married, Mrs. Lillian R. Coogan, 41, mother of onetime Cinemactor John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan; and Arthur Bernstein, 51, manager of Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc. which holds the Coogan film fortune; in Las Vegas, Nev. Two years ago Father Coogan was killed in an automobile crash which Jackie survived (TIME, May 13, 1935).

Died-- Vivian Jackson, 30, rich University of London astrophysicist and amateur steeplechaser engaged to three-times-divorced Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 48; of injuries received when the sleigh in which they were riding crashed into a hotel portico, pitched him into a pillar; in Samaden, Switzerland.

Fiancee Joyce escaped with bruises and shock.

Died, Dr. John Gresham Machen, 55, peppery Philadelphia Fundamentalist; of lobar pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak., where he had paused on a speaking tour.

Tried, convicted and suspended by the Presbyterian Church, he defiantly formed his own Presbyterian Church of America.

Died, Mrs. Jessie B. Marble, 59, mother of Alice Marble, champion U. S. woman tennist; of heart disease; in San Francisco.

Died, Andrew Bernhard Charles Dohrmann, 68, potent San Francisco department store tycoon (The Emporium), founder of the city's Community Chest, majority stockholder in Yosemite Park concessions; of heart disease; in San Francisco.

Died. Dame Fanny Lucy Radmall Houston, eccentric widow of Shipowner Sir Robert Patterson Houston, reputedly England's richest woman ($25,000,000); of heart disease; at Byron Cottage, Hampstead, England. A champion of British supremacy, in 1931 she gave $500,000 to enable Britain to win the last Schneider Cup Trophy air races, financed the 1933 flight over Mt. Everest, twice offered to donate $1,000,000 to strengthen the British Army & Navy.

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