Born, To Ailsa Mellon Bruce, only daughter of Andrew William Mellon, and David Kilpatrick Este Bruce, son of Maryland's onetime U. S. Senator William Cabell Bruce, whom she married in 1926; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan.

Engaged. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, fortyish, famed Parisian couturiere; and one Paul Iribe. painter, decorator, Chanel business partner.

Sued for Divorce. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 65, and Mary Macfadden; by each other; in Trenton, N. J. Mutual charges: misconduct. Publisher Macfadden further charged that his wife, ridiculing his gospel of physical culture, encouraged their six daughters to "smoke and drink in swanky speakeasies."

Divorced. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers. She is writing my life story." Property settlement: Prince Serge exchanged $15,000 in notes for Singer McCormic's claim to a half interest in Pacific Shore Oil Co. (TIME. June 26).

Divorced. William Curtis Bok, 36, Philadelphia publishing scion, lawyer, penologist, music patron, eldest son of the late Edward William Bok, grandson of the late Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; by Margaret Adams Bok, Philadelphia socialite; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty.

Birthdays. Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 21; Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 21*, With her new husband, "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara returned to the U. S. for a birthday party arranged last week by her amiable father, and to receive legally a third of the estate of her late grandfather, Frank Winfield (5-c- & 10-c-) Woolworth--about $20,000,000, protected by a marriage contract drawn up by wary Hutton lawyers.

Died. William Kissam Vanderbilt III 26. son of Yachtsman-Railroader William Kissam Vanderbilt II and his first wife, Virginia Fair Vanderbilt; grandson of the ablest grandson of protean Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in a physician's office in Ridgeland, S. C. Like his father, who founded the Vanderbilt Cup races, enamored of racing, young Vanderbilt was speeding from Miami to Manhattan in a big Bentley touring car. with his friend Erskine Gwynne (grandnephew of the Dowager Mrs. Vanderbilt) and his chauffeur. Few minutes after he took the wheel he crashed into a truck parked at the side of U. S. Highway No. 17. Highway patrolmen could see no reason for the accident, said he must have been driving 75 m.p.h. or more. Died. Edward Nash Hurley, 69, Chicago pneumatic tool, utilities and banking tycoon, co-receiver for Middle West Utilities Co. (Insull holding company). War-time head of the U. S. Shipping Board and president of Emergency Fleet Corp., one-time chairman of the Federal Trade Commission: of pneumonia and leukemia; in Chicago.

Died. Henry Herman Westinghouse. So, board chairman of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., inventor of the single-acting steam engine, brother of the late George Westinghouse who invented the air brake and founded Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.; after long illness; in Goshen. N. Y.

Died. Augustine Birrell, 83, famed wit and litterateur (obiter dicta), onetime (1905-07) president of Britain's Board of Education and (1907-16) Chief Secretary for Ireland; in his sleep; in London.

*Also 21 this week will be Doris Duke, richest, most heavily guarded U. S. heiress. To her will be turned over a tobacco fortune estimated at from $50,000,000 to $85,000,000.

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