Engaged. The Infante Juan, 21, youngest living son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain, midshipman in the British Navy; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon, 24, daughter of Prince Charles of Bourbon. Because his two older brothers, the ex-Prince of Asturias and the Infante Jaime, renounced their rights and married commoners, the Infante Juan is heir presumptive to the Spanish throne.

Seeking Divorce. "Princess" Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, granddaughter and heiress ($20,000,000) of the late F. W. Woolworth; from "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31, divorced husband of Louise Astor Van Alen. Married in 1933, they were often separated, often reported about to divorce. In London last week, whence she was about to sail for the U. S. to file suit in Reno, "Princess" Mdivani said: "We agreed to part only legally. . . . Alec to me is one of the finest men I have ever known. . . . No man could be nobler."

Died. Professor John James Rickard MacLeod, 58, onetime Associate Dean of the Medical School of the University of Toronto where, with Sir Frederick Banting, he discovered insulin (pancreas serum, for treating diabetes) which won them the 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine; in Aberdeen, Scotland, at whose University he had been Regius Professor of Physiology since 1928.

Died. Jeremiah Smith Jr., 65, Boston lawyer, financial savior of Hungary as League of Nations Commissioner General in 1924-26; in Cambridge, Mass. Unknown and at first distrusted by Hungarians, he stabilized currency, controlled revenues, floated a $50,000,000 loan. Given 30 months to put Hungary on her feet, he balanced the budget in six months, rolled up a $15,000,000 surplus in a year. He declined decorations and $60,000, which went instead to establish scholarships for Hungarian students in the U. S.

Died. Richard Berry Harrison, 70, "de Lawd" of The Green Pastures (TIME, March 4); of acute coronary occlusion, after falling ill three weeks ago just before his 1,658th performance in the play; in Manhattan.

Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals.

Died. George Earle Buckle, 80, longtime (1884-1912) editor of the London Times, official co-biographer of Disraeli, editor of The Letters of Queen Victoria; in London.

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