Milestones: Nov. 29, 1926

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Born. To William Emmett Dever, Mayor of Chicago, a granddaughter, in Chicago.

Engaged. Virginia Insull, daughter of Martin J. Insull, niece of Samuel Insull, electricity-gas-transportation magnates; to Major William A. Rafferty, U. S. A. (retired).

Engaged. Evelina Porter Gleaves, daughter of Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves (retired); to Albert Morris Cohen, onetime commander, U. S. N.

Married. Frances Lehman, daughter of Arthur Lehman (banker-realtor) granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn (capitalist-philanthropist); to John L. Loeb, son of Carl M. Loeb (President, American Metal Co.); in Manhattan, at the home of Mr. Lewisohn.

Married. Patrick A. ("Pat") McKenna, doorkeeper for five Presidents and still on duty; to one Marguerite A. Smith; in Washington. He did not inform anyone, even President Coolidge.

Married. Charlotte MacDougall, daughter of Rear Admiral William Dugald MacDougall; to Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister to China and Japan; at Portsmouth, N. H. Married. Lawrence Lewis, one-time husband of Louise Wise Lewis (who inherited part of the Flagler railroad and oil millions); to one Ruby Vaughan Bigger; in Richmond, Va.

Married. Katherine Wright, sister of Orville and the late Wilbur Wright (airplane inventors); to Henry J. Haskell, 52, associate editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; in Oberlin, Ohio. Married. Audrey Emery, "Diana of Cincinnati,"* daughter of the late John J. Emery; to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia; at Biarritz, France. By the marriage she becomes Princess Anna Ilyinska, cousin-germain to Queen Marie of Rumania. Married. Patricia Andrews Herron, niece of Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who gave the bride away; to one Joseph Lancaster Brent; in Washington.

Died. John Fairbanks, 43, brother of Douglas Fairbanks and General Manager of the Douglas Fairbanks Picture Corp.; in Hollywood, Calif., of paralytic stroke.

Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Carr, 46, sheriff-elect of Cook County (Chicago); of ulcers of the stomach (see p. 11).

Died. Hiram Abrams, 48, President of the United Artists Corp. (cinema); in Manhattan, of heart disease. He began life in Portland, Me., as newsboy; became first president of Paramount Pictures; headed United Artists, which organization Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbank, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith helped him form.

Died. Aimée Dostoievsky, 56, daughter of Feodor Dostoievsky; in Bolzano, Italy; of tuberculosis. She had written a penetrating sutdy of her novelist father, whose death in 1881 was not recorded in the Occidental press, to which he was then unkown.

Died. Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham,