Milestones, Dec. 11, 1933

Engaged. Irene Helen Robbins, 19, only daughter of U. S. Minister to Canada Warren Delano Robbins (first cousin of President Roosevelt); and Alexander Cochrane Forbes, Harvard graduate.

Engaged. Barbara Balfe, 19, Manhattan socialite, first cousin of Veronica Balfe (see below); and Jack Rohe Howard, 23, newspaperman, only son of Publisher Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard).

Engaged. Veronica Balfe (Sandra Shaw), 20, film actress, Manhattan socialite; and Gary Cooper, 32, film actor.

Sued for Divorce. By Elizabeth Atterbury Connelly, 29, sportswoman, daughter of Pennsylvania R. R.'s President William Wallace Atterbury: James Alexander Connelly Jr., Villanova, Pa. coalman: in Media, Pa. Charge: indignities.

Sued. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, 44, author, agnostic, publisher of Little Blue Books (5¢); by Marcet Haldeman Haldeman-Julius, authoress, actress; for separate maintenance and $125, 000, which she claims she has advanced to her husband since their marriage in 1916. Other charges: cruelty, desertion.

Left. By George Ehret, German-born brewer, founder of Manhattan's old Hell Gate Brewery, maker of once famed Franziskaner: $39,801,569; $105,000 to charity, $50,000 to a sister-in-law, the rest to six children and a grandson. He died almost seven years ago, aged 92 (TIME, Jan. 31, 1927).

Died. William O'Connell ("W. 0.") McGeehan, 54, famed sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune); of heart disease; at San Island Beach, Ga. He pierced the fog of ballyhoo around professional sport, turned a fishy eye on promoters, managers and their proteges, invented an elaborately sardonic slang.

Died. Richard Henry Dana, 54, Manhattan architect, grandson of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and of Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast); of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. General Sir Arthur William Currie, 57, Wartime Commander-in-chief of the Canadian forces in France, principal and vice-chancellor since 1920 of McGill University; of pneumonia and cerebral thrombosis; in Montreal. Onetime teacher, realtor, insurance man, he commanded a volunteer regiment when War came, took an infantry brigade to France. He rose rapidly, won fame at the second battle of Ypres where his men faced poison gas for the first time, became Commander-in-chief in 1917. After his triumphal return, there were whispers that he sacrificed his men in a vainglorious desire to have the Canadians fire the last shot on Armistice Day. When a newspaper printed the story he sued, obtained a $500 libel verdict.

Died, James Arnold Lowell. 64, Federal district judge at Boston, cousin of Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell; of pneumonia following erysipelas; at his home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground that no Negroes got on Virginia juries (TIME, May 8; Oct. 30).