Milestones: Nov. 5, 1928

Born. To Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Republican Nominee for U. S. Representative from (New York; a nine-pound granddaughter, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John T. Pratt Jr.

Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne Gibson of Bedford, N. Y., a nine-pound son. The child will be named for his grandfather, Illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. The child's maternal grandfather was the late Financier Moses Taylor.

Engaged. Prince Christopher of Greece, widower of the former Mrs. W. B. Leeds of Cleveland; and Princess Francoise II, daughter of the Due de Guise, pretender to the throne of France.

Engaged. John Robert Lawson Johnston, London merchant who is reputedly worth $40,000,000, onetime husband of Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim; and Betty McCormick, salesgirl & clothes model of Albany, N. Y.

Engaged. Virginia Waddill Shepherd, stepdaughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen) of Richmond, Va.; and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer.

Married. Mary Elizabeth Rickard, daughter of Edgar Rickard, Manhattan mining engineer who assisted Nominee Hoover in wartime food administrating; to Reginald Dorsey Mohun of Manhattan; in New Canaan, Conn. To the wedding went Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, Son Allan Henry Hoover.

Married. David S. Ludlum, 25, nephew of President John A. Hartford of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; to Marian Hamilton, 21, Seattle dancer in George M. Cohan's comedy Billie. Her published photograph exhibits her sitting on a table edge, long slim legs pendant, a white fur coat skilfully covering her nudity.

Married. Frederick Beck Patterson, cash register tycoon of Dayton, Ohio; and Mrs. Armenal Wood Gorman, former wife of E. H. Barney-Gorman, Dayton realtor; in Ipswich, Mass. Mr. Patterson was recently divorced by his first wife (TIME, Oct. 22).

Married. Henry Belin du Pont, assistant treasurer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours (explosives), of Wilmington, Del.; to Margaret Lewis, daughter of Perry J. Lewis, Texas barrister; in San Antonio.

Married. Katharine Van Rensselaer Strong of New Brunswick, N. J., descendant of Van Rensselaer patroons & Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence; to Morrison Ulman, Manhattan scion; in New Brunswick.

Married. Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker of Manhattan & Baltimore, recently divorced wife of Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan & cosmopolite (TIME, Oct. 15); to Charles Minot Amory of Boston & Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Married. Marcel William Stengel, 50, of Manhattan, painter, son of Marcella Sembrich, famed soprano; and Juliette de Coppet, 45, daughter of the late Financier Edward J. de Coppet who founded the famed Flonzaley quartet; in Greenwich, Conn.

Sued for Divorce. Lou Tellegen, famed Graeco-Dutch actor, onetime leading man for the late Sarah Bernhardt, one-time husband of Soprano Geraldine Farrar; by Mrs. Isabel Craven Tellegen, onetime Tennessee schoolgirl; in Los Angeles.

Sued for Divorce. Lady Inverclyde (Olive Sylvia Sainsbury), daughter of Arthur Sainsbury, London chain grocery store tycoon; by Lord Inverclyde (John Alan Burns), 31, opulent nobleman of London.

Divorced. David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, nth Earl of Northesk, of London; by Jessica Brown, onetime Ziegfeld Follies showgirl.