Born. To Sidney Arnold Fortel, 35, Newark businessman who loudly boasted his infallibility in foretelling both sex and birthdate, last March publicly forecast the birth of a son on June 17 or 18 (TIME, March 27), and Mrs. Jane Fortel, 25: a girl, two days late; in Newark, N. J. Weight: 6 3/4 lb. Name: Hazel. Shouted False Prophet Fortel: "Nature can't do this to me. Don't think I'm going to take this sitting down."

Born. To James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, 41, onetime heavyweight champion, and Millionheiress Mary Josephine ("Polly") Lauder Tunney: their fourth child, first daughter. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Joan (for Joan of Arc) Lauder. Crowed proud Father Tunney: "She's a beauty."

Engaged. Marjorie Hillis, 49, author of Live Alone and Like It; to Thomas Henry Roulston, 65, grocery chain-store executive; in Manhattan.

Married. Margaret Delano, 23, second cousin of President Roosevelt; and Philadelphia Socialite Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul, 23, distant kin of the New York Journal American's: fat Snobster Maury Henry Biddle ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Paul; in Rhinebeck, N. Y. Twittered Hearstling Paul: "June finds a consequential group of 'Mayfair Maidens' assuming matrimonial honors . . . weddings of paramount interest to Gotham's bon-tons are being celebrated beyond the confines of Manhattan Isle."

Died. Grace Abbott, 60, famed feminist, who ran a bureau to help Chicago's swarming immigrants, became chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau; of anemia; in Chicago.

Died. Count Constanzo Ciano, 63, father of Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, Admiral of the Royal Navy, President of the Fascist Chamber of Deputies; of a heart attack; at his villa in Ponte Moriano, Tuscany. In 1917, commanding a squadron of torpedo boats, he invaded the mined harbor of Buccari, near Fiume, destroyed half a dozen Austrian war vessels. Minister of Communications from 1924 to 1934, he organized Italy's fleet of luxury ocean liners, made Italian trains run on time.

Died. Ford Madox Ford, 66, British-born author of 60 books (novels, essays, biographies, letters), collaborator (1897-1909) with Joseph Conrad; of a heart attack, at Deauville, France. Born Ford Madox Hueffer (he changed his name after the World War), he was recommended at 25 to Conrad by William Ernest Henley as the best stylist in Britain, helped out on Romance, The Inheritors, The Nature of a Crime. One line he contributed to Romance, Conrad thought "indeed genius." The line: "Excellency, a few goats!"

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