Milestones: Feb. 24, 1930

Born. To Actress (Coquette, Dancing Mothers) Helen Hayes MacArthur and Co-Playwright (Front Page, Lulu Belle, Salvation) Charles MacArthur; a daughter; at Manhattan. Last year producer Jed Harris closed Coquette because of Miss Hayes' approaching maternity. When Actors' Equity Association sued, he claimed the baby was "an act of God''; lost the suit (TIME., Sept. 16, Oct. 7).

Engaged. Rosamond Marie Farrell, daughter of President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp.; and one Richard Joseph Buck of Bethlehem, Pa.; at New York.

Engaged. Amanda Stewart Bryan, daughter of Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond, Va. News-Leader; and Richmond Keith Kane, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), onetime (1921) Harvard football captain, Harvard, Oxford oarsman.

Engaged. Edda Mussolini, approximately 20, A-1 daughter of Italian Premier Benito Mussolini; to Count Galeazzo Ciano, 30, secretary of the Italian Embassy to Vatican City, son of Italian Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano; at Rome. The precise legal conditions of Edda Mussolini's birth must become a legend her father has decreed. He will not let her biography be published. Epically he segregates his five children into two classes, those of his First Series, those of his Second Series. All are of the same mother (TIME, Sept. 16). Edda is a stalwart young woman whose semi-public position has given her excuse to throw aside the traditional Italian woman's modesty and proclaim with her father: "Whoever is not a Father is not "a man."

Married. Ugo Zacchini, 31, "the human cannon ball," who is shot from a cannon daily in Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus; to Elizabeth Walker, of Berlin; Bruno Zacchini. 29. who fires the cannon; to Gertrude Reigel, of Berlin; in a double wedding; at Sarasota, Fla.

Awarded. To Camera Tycoon George Eastman; the Medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for "Noteworthy and Outstanding Service to the Science of Chemistry and the Profession of Chemistry in America."

Appointed. Sir William Peel, 55, career administrator and adviser since 1897 in British Malaya (Penang, Singapore, Kedah, etc.); to be Governor of Hongkong, important British naval station and trade mart in the Orient (average annual trade $500,000,000). Sir William succeeds to the post and salary ($30,000) of Sir Cecil Clementi, promoted Governor of the Straits Settlements.

Appointed. Edgar Stephenson Furniss, Ph. D., 39, Chairman of the Department of Economics, Sociology & Government at Yale University; to be Dean of Yale Graduate School; to succeed Wilbur Lucius Cross, 67, retiring.

Resigned. James Milliken Speers. 66, board chairman of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan linen merchants; from the presidency of that company; on the 50th anniversary of his arriving from Ireland and joining the firm. To succeed him was appointed William Charles McCutcheon.

Birthday. William Berryman Scott, professor of geology at Princeton University. Age: 72. A member of the faculty for 47 years, he said: ". . . it would have been unthinkable to have demanded so much work from the undergraduate of 25 years ago as is required of him today."