Born. To John Coolidge, 27, railway clerk, son of the late Calvin Coolidge, and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 28, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull : a daughter, their first child; in New Haven, Conn. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died Oct. 6) : the John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband of the late Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick and of Operasinger Ganna Walska; by Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate; in a midtown Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk -- a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon monoxide gas) ; in Pueblo, Col. His world-wide glass eye clientele included a Zulu chieftain. Died. Paul Painleve, 69, thrice Premier of France, ten times Cabinet Min ister, once president of the Chamber of Deputies, distinguished scientist; after long illness; in Paris. Son of a Parisian baker, he won attention at home and abroad with discoveries in algebra, mechanics, astronomy, became professor at the Sorbonne. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1906, he drifted toward the Left as a mild radical. As Minister of War in 1917 he welcomed the U. S. forces to France; as Premier he appointed the late Ferdinand Foch to the Supreme Allied War Council.

Died. Leon Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guerin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations pronounced BCG harmless, it has not ceased to be the subject of acrid dispute.

Died. Edward Hugh Sothern, 73, retired Shakespearean actor, husband of Actress Julia Marlowe; of pneumonia; in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. In 1885 Daniel Frohman spotted him playing in Mona, took him into the Lyceum Stock Company where he became leading man and married the leading lady, Virginia Harned. They were divorced in 1910. Some time before that, began the halcyon days when he toured with Julia Marlowe in a train of twelve cars, doing Shakespeare from Hamlet to Twelfth Night. He "retired" in 1916, appeared again at intervals, collapsed on a Denver lecture platform three years ago and retired finally, denouncing the indecency of the modern theatre and predicting an imminent Shakespeare renascence.

Died. Sir John Harvard Biles, 79, "greatest living authority on naval architecture," onetime naval constructor of the British Admiralty, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England.

*Her "Villa Turicum," a 206-acre Lake Forest estate with 52 -room Italian palace de signed by the late Charles Adams Platt, once worth $2,500,000, went last week in a sheriff's sale to American National Bank & Trust Co., which held judgment against it, for $51,624.

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