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Milestones: Sep. 8, 1930

Married. Henry Louis Mencken, editor of American Mercury, utterer of exuberancies and abominations; and Sara Powell Haardt, Mercury contributor; at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr in Baltimore.

Married. Edward William Mahan, 38, famed Harvard footballer, crack halfback during three years (1914 to 1916) when Harvard lost only one game (to Cornell, 19-15), onetime head coach of Harvard baseball, for the past three years an employe of Manhattan bankers and brokers; and Beryl Boardman of Natick, Mass., his friend since childhood; at the rectory of St....

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