Born, To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (second son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.); and Mrs. Rockefeller; a son.

Engaged, William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness (Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle), brother-in-law of Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite.

Sued for Divorce, Horace Liveright, publisher and theatrical producer; by Actress Elise Bartlett. former wife of Actor Joseph Schildkraut; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Professor Frederick Grant Banting, 39, Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of insulin (see p. 25); from Marion Robertson Banting.

Divorced, Frances Williams, musico-medienne; from Lester Clark, orchestra pianist; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty, fighting. Said Miss Williams: "When I was playing in The New Yorkers, my husband was playing in the pit. He often missed beats just to annoy me."

Retired. George H. Van Fleet, 68, closest business associate of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, editor of the Marion Star during Harding's terms as Senator and President. The Star is now owned by Ohio's Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc.

Left. By the late Richard Edgar Horatio Wallace, prodigious British scrivener; an estate of -L-18,000 (about $67,500) and debts of -L-81,000 (about $303.750). Said his relict: "It would be idle to beat about the bush. The figure of -L-81,000 represents . . . heavy racing losses and the fact . . . that we had been living above our income. We gave big parties ... and generally Edgar was spending right and left as though it were certain that the big sums he was earning for a time from his theatrical activities could continue, automatically, forever."

Died, Bangwan, 35, tribal chief of the saucer-lipped Ubangi; of Bright's disease; in Sarasota, Fla. A six-foot, tattooed warrior from the French Congo, Chief Bangwan drooped in his U. S. life of enforced ease. He left seven saucer-lipped relicts, three of them in John Ringling's Circus.

Died, Edward Taylor Scott, 48, able editor of the Manchester Guardian, son of its late, great Editor Charles Prestwich Scott (TIME, Jan. 11), drowned after a dinghy, in which he was rowing to his yacht, capsized; in Lake Windermere, Westmorland, England. His 16-year-old son was rescued.

Died, Mary Morton, 51, daughter of the late U. S. Vice President Levi Parsons Morton (1889-93 under Benjamin Harrison); after a short illness; in Geneva, Switzerland.

Died, Edward M. Beers, 54, Congressman from the 18th Pennsylvania District: of complications following influenza; in Washington.

Died, Gustavus Frederick, Cardinal Piffl, 67, Archbishop of Vienna and Primate of Austria; of apoplexy; in Vienna.

Died, Howard Stockton, 90, lawyer, onetime president of American Bell Telephone Co.. father of President Philip Stockton of Boston's First National Bank; after a brief illness; in Boston.

Died, Joseph Warren Keifer, 96, one of the three known surviving Civil War generals,* longtime (1877-85, 1905-11) Congressman from Ohio, onetime (1881-83) Speaker of the House; of old age; in Springfield, Ohio. Educated under the regime of the late, great President Horace Mann of Antioch College, he rose to fame as a divisional commander for General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, was four times wounded. During the Spanish War. President McKinley appointed him Major General of volunteers, and he was later elected 1st Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish War Veterans. As Speaker of the House he formulated the Cloture rule. A determined foe of war, he addressed the Conference on Universal Peace at Brussels in 1911, was a U. S. representative to the 1914 Stockholm peace conference that was never held.

*The other two: Major General Adelbert Ames, 95, of Tewksbury, Mass.; Brigadier General John Fred Pierson, 93, of Manhattan.

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