Milestones

Adopted. Mrs. Marjorie Knappen Waite, 42, executive secretary of the Katrina Trask (feminist) Alliance; by George Foster Peabody, 74, nationally famed educator, retired member of Spencer Trask & Co. (brokers).

The Katrina Trask Alliance was named after the widow of Spencer Trask, who subsequently married Mr. Peabody. Last week he said of the newly adopted Mrs. Waite: "She is a very able woman."

Engaged. Miss Dorothy Schurman, youngest daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman; to Lieutenant James McHugh, U. S. M. C. They first met at Peking, while her father was Minister to China (1921-24).

Engaged. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, famed Manhattan lawyer; to Curtis Bean Dall of Manhattan.

Engaged. Miss Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of the late Frank W. Woolworth (Nickel and Dime Stores); to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr., of Manhattan and Tuxedo Park.

Engaged. Edwin Harris Knopf, actor, writer, brother of famed publisher Alfred Knopf, to Miss Mildred R. Oppenheimer of Manhattan.

Engaged. Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, 54, famed (TIME, June 25, 1923, et seq., EDUCATION) on account of so-called radical leanings which resulted in his resignation as President of Amherst College, now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin; to Miss Helen Everett, daughter of Professor Walter G. Everett of Brown University, where once Dr. Meiklejohn was Dean.

Married. Miss Rosemary Crane, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Goodrich Crane of Dalton, Mass.; to one John Maurice Hastings of London and Manhattan.

Married. George Martin, editor of Farm and Fireside, to Miss Dorothy McDowell, onetime member of TIME'S editorial staff; in Hoboken, by a 300-lb. judge.

Married. Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Sr., widow of one of the two Dodge brothers who founded the famed auto manufactory of that name; to one Hugh Dillman, actor, divorced husband of famed actress, Marjorie Rambeau, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Dodge is asserted to have recently purchased for $3,000,000 the Joshua S. Cosden estate at Palm Beach, together with its furnishings, works of art, etc., valued at $1,000,000. At the wedding was Edward Townsend Stotesbury, famed Philadelphia capitalist.

Died. Dr. William D. Melton, 58, President of the University of South Carolina, influential Presbyterian; at Columbia, S. C.

Died. Prince Victor Jerome Frederic Napoleon Bonaparte, 64, pretender to the throne of France, head of the House of Bonaparte, husband of Princess Clementine of Belgium (daughter of the late King Leopold), scholar, student, connoisseur; at Brussels, Belgium, where his large private fortune enabled him to live in the retired comfort which he loved. He was known as one of the greatest European authorities on the U. S. Constitution. He is "succeeded" by his 12-year-old son, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom Napoleon Clementine will act as "regent" until he becomes of age.

Died. John W. Thompson, 64; in St. Louis, of heart disease (See p. 10.)

Died. Benjamin Barker Odell, 72, Governor of New York during two consecutive terms (1901-5); at Manhattan, of cancer of the stomach.

Died. Alton Brooks Parker, 74, Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1904, to accept which he resigned as Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, distinguished and respected jurist; suddenly, of heart failure, while riding in his automobile. Judge Parker was, of course, chosen as a "gold Democrat" in 1904 "to take the curse of Bryan's free silver off the party."

Died. Miss Grace Norton, 93, famed authority upon Montaigne, sister of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard, first cousin of President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard; at Cambridge, Mass.