Engaged. Ghazi I, 21, King of Irak; and his cousin. Princess Aliza, 22, daughter of onetime King Ali of the Hejaz.

Married. Alfred Ernest Stearns, 62, longtime (1903-33) headmaster of Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.); and a Miss Grace demons; in Concord, N. H. Married. Meredith Nicholson, 66, Indiana author (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men), new U. S. Minister to Paraguay (TIME, Aug. 28); and Dorothy Lannon, his longtime friend and literary associate; in Washington, D. C. Died. Clement E. Chase, 45, bridge engineer, partner of famed Bridgebuilder Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut out Philadelphia four times in the 1905 World Series.

Died. Dr. Henry Suzzallo, 58, president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching; of heart disease; in Seattle. Son of Italian immigrants, he became president of University of Washington in 1915, was ousted eleven years later in a celebrated clash with Governor Roland Hartley who. resenting an old difference, also disliked Dr. Suzzallo's urbane way of wheedling fat appropriations from legislatures (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Died. Thomas Price, 59, retired railroad man, philanthropist, animal lover; when he was fired on from ambush while riding with two companions (both of whom were wounded), on the 1,200-acre estate near Wuynesville, N. C. which has been his summer home for 25 years. Few hours later a mountaineer named Dewey Potter, who had been fined for poaching on the Price estate, and two others surrendered to peace officers. Before his retirement last year. Thomas Price was secretary of Union Pacific R. R., secretary or director of 18 other roads and utilities, mostly Union Pacific subsidiaries. Died. Arthur Seligman, 60, Governor of New Mexico; suddenly, of angina pectoris; in an Albuquerque hotel.

Died. Sime Silverman, 61, founder-publisher of the weekly Variety, folks Bible-in-argot; of a lung hemorrhage; in a Los Angeles hotel. Fired 25 years ago from a job on the New York Morning Telegraph, he borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law, bought a moribund weekly, converted it into the sheet which today has a staff of 225, is sometimes 100 pages fat. In cryptic Broadway slanguage, which he and the late Jack Conway enlarged and embroidered, he fought for the downtrodden trouper against bookers, agents, producers. "The hell with the ads!" was his slogan: he called his advertisers' shows "lousy" when he thought they were, kept his circulation a secret. Four years ago he made his son Sidney half owner. He never praised a story, "fired" his men scores of times, ran off to Havana when they planned to fete him on the paper's 25th birthday. Variety seldom takes notice of the workaday world but when the 1929 boom collapsed it headlined: WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG.

Died. James Anson Campbell, 79, chairman emeritus, longtime (1906-30) president and head of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., onetime farmer and hardware clerk; of heart failure; in Youngstown, Ohio. Broken by his titanic struggle to merge Youngstown with Bethlehem Steel (TIME, July 21, 1930 et ante), he resigned the presidency, turned over the management to younger men.

Died. Annie Wood Besant, 85, high priestess of Theosophy (150,000 adherents), onetime president of the Indian National Congress; in Adyar, Madras, India, her home for 40 years. Born in London of poor Irish-Anglosaxon parents, a highstrung, impressionable girl overflowing with energy and ideas, she quickly tired of the Church of England vicar she married at 20, scurried off to become the right-hand woman of Atheist Charles Bradlaugh--for which a scandalized court denied her custody of her two children. She preached birth-control, antivivisection, woman's suffrage, Indian independence; joined Socialists George Bernard Shaw and James Ramsay MacDonald in the Fabian Society. She met Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a founder of the Theosophical Society, became her disciple, went to India where she preceded the Mahatma Gandhi as a protagonist of the Untouchables, founded a Hindu college, fanned the flames of Theosophy--"a mystical speculation applied to deduce a philosophy of the universe," compact of pantheism, occultism, Hinduism, theoretically without dogmas but entailing belief in reincarnation and in knowledge of the divine Essence through soul force. The U. S. knew her best as sponsor of young Jiddu Krishnamurti ("The Messiah in Plus Fours") who, after his ill-starred world tour, decided he was not a Messiah after all and renounced Theosophy; and for her abortive attempt to establish a breeding-ground in California where the neo-American predicted by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka might evolve.

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