Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Jay Gould of Manhattan, a nine-pound daughter. Mrs. Gould (Lorraine Manville) inherited $9,000,000 from her father Thomas Manville, asbestos tycoon. Then she went on the stage, where she met vaudevillian Jay Gould. After their marriage, three years ago, they both left the stage.

Engaged. Charles Tiffany Bingham, Columbia medical student, fourth son of Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut; to Kathleen Wattson Howell of Manhattan.

Married. David A. Schulte, cigar store tycoon of Manhattan; and Mrs. Henry Koehler, relict of the treasurer of Park & Tilford (candies); in Manhattan. Mr. Schulte owns Park & Tilford, controls Dunhill tobacco, Vivaudou perfumes, Huylers candies, other commodities.

Married. Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, son of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, who is president of Leland Stanford University; and Ruth Jordan, San Francisco scionness; in Palo Alto, Cal. Herbert Hoover Jr. was best man; his wife matron of honor.

Married. Martha Skinner of South Hadley, Mass., granddaughter of the late silk tycoon William Skinner; and Dr. Victor Wesley Logan of Manhattan; in Holyoke, Mass.

Married. The Marquess of Abergavenny, 75, famed landowner (50,000 acres) of London and Tunbridge Wells, England; and Viscountess Hardinge, 59, widow of the 3d Viscount Hardinge; in London. The first wife of the Marquess died in 1880, the second last year.

Sued for Divorce. Wallace Eddinger, comedian, of Manhattan; by Margaret Lawrence, comedienne.

Elected. Wallace Brett Donham, Dean of the School of Business Administration of Harvard University; to be a director of Royal Baking Powder Co., chairman of its finance committee. Dean Donham has other directorships (coal, gas, banks, travel agency).

Elected. Fritz Williams, 63, beloved actor who recently played in Rain; to be Shepherd of the Lambs, famed Manhattan theatrical club. Actor Williams headed an independent ticket, defeated wobbly-legged Leon Errol. regular candidate, succeeded the late venerable Thomas A. Wise.

Lost. Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald, D. S. C. (British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from England to India, having had 10 hours' previous solo flying. Said the New York World: ". . . harebrained effort . . ."; said the United Press: ". . . a great sporting gesture. . . ."

Died. Terrance Waldman, 4, & Benjamin Waldman, 1, sons of Milton S. Waldman, assistant editor of the London Mercury, grandsons & heirs of the late copper tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim who perished on the Titanic; in a 14-story fall from a penthouse roof; in Manhattan. Mrs. Waldman (Barbara Hazel Guggenheim) held the younger son on her lap when a tussle caused the fall.

Died. Jack Dunn, owner and manager of the Baltimore Orioles, perennial champions of the International Baseball League; of heart disease while viewing from the saddle the trial of his dog Bell the Devil at Townson, Md. Dunn developed George Herman Ruth, Carl Mays, many another rough-in-the-diamond.

Died. Frances Newman, 40, author of The Hard-boiled Virgin; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Frank Gifford Drew, 56, chairman of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and director of nearly a dozen other companies; when his automobile hit a telephone pole and overturned near Toms River, N. J.

Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor.

Died. James Walter Thompson, 81, famed Manhattan adman; in Manhattan (see p. 40).

Died. Rev. Frederick William MacDonald, 86, Wesleyan divine of Bournemouth, England, uncle to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Poet Rudyard Kipling, the late Painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones; in Bournemouth.