Married. Henry A. Scrandrett, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad; to Mrs. Frances Hochstetler Daugherty, of Omaha, Nebr.; in Omaha.

Married. Thomas Benedict Clarke Jr., retired banker, onetime (1916-23) husband of Actress Elsie Ferguson, of Manhattan; to Mrs. Camilla Gaucher Sanborn, of Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Captain William A. Winter, of Manhattan; by Mrs. Rhona Lloyd Winter, chosen by Canada as official hostess to the Prince of Wales on a recent visit.

Elected. Thomas Nelson Perkins, director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, president of the Harvard Alumni Association; to be chairman of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He succeeds Homer Loring, who resigned.

Elected. Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, 47, professor of mechanical engineering at Harvard; to be president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N. J. He succeeds the late Dr. Alexander Crombie Humphreys.

Birthday for Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, grand old lady of the U. S. theatre (born March 12, 1845). She played with charm the role of the grandmother in the musical comedy, Just Fancy, in Chicago, professed a little stage-fright after 63 years on the boards.

Birthday for Adolph S. Ochs (born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more."

Birthday for Oliver Wendell Holmes, born March 8, 1841, thrice wounded in the Civil War, for a quarter-century one of the eight Associate Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time." Despite a cold which confined him to his home in Washington, he spent his birthday working on the cases assigned him by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. "I should die if I quit work," he is said to say at intervals.

Died. John Mortimer Coward, 28, millionaire owner of the Coward shoe stores (Manhattan); of heart disease; in Havana, Cuba. His son, John Mortimer Coward 3d, aged 5, falls heir to $4,000,000.

Died. Thomas Sawyer, onetime railroader, original of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer according to his sister, Mrs. Flaville Pineo of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; in Tucson, Ariz. No such thing, commented Cyril Clemens, second cousin of Author Twain. He added that "Tom Sawyer" was a composite character.

Died. Emile Mayrisch, president of the European steel trust, known as the Luxemburg Cartel (TIME, Dec. 5); in an automobile accident, near Chalons-sur-Marne, France.

Died. W. Gordon Parker, 52, onetime ranking tennis player, famed writer of juveniles; who shot and killed himself at his home in Charlevoix, Mich.

Died. George (Kid) Lavigne, 58, night watchman at the Ford plant, onetime (1893-1899) lightweight boxing champion; in Detroit.

Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure car depression of the early part of the War, as a nucleus for the development in 1925 of the Chrysler, now a highly successful international leader.

Died. Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, 65, son of the late John Wanamaker, urbane president of the John Wanamaker Stores, patron of art, aviation, exploration, director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000); of uremia; in Atlantic City, N. J. Two hundred prominent men of England, France, Japan, and the U. S. were invited to act as honorary pallbearers. Among the messages and cables received by the family was one from King George V.

Died. Charles William Brown, 70, president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. (see p. 34).

Died. Dr. Robert Abbe, 76, cancer specialist, friend and associate of Mme. Curie in Paris, first surgeon to introduce radium treatment in U. S.; in Manhattan; of aplastic anemia.

Died. William Henry Crane, 82, well-loved actor, star of David Harum, The Senator, Business is Business and many another U. S. comedy, president emeritus of the Maskers Club; in Hollywood, Calif.

Died. Richard Woodget, 82, captain of the Cutty Sark, famed British clipper of the 70's, with which he made astounding records in the Australian wool trade (3,457 miles in eleven days); in Norfolk County, England.