Born. A son, William Alexander, the firstborn, to Mrs. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, onetime actress (the nun in The Miracle), campaigner for President-Reject Alfred E. Smith, niece of onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; in Manhattan.

Engaged. Helen Wills, 22, holder of U. S., English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story.

Married. Miriam Fortune Ryan, daughter of Allan A. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Jacques R. Herbert; in Montreal; secretly.

Married. Thomas Fortune Ryan 2d, 29, grandson of the late capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Mrs. Margaret Moorhead Rea, 29, divorced wife of the son of the onetime president of Pennsylvania Railroad; in the Municipal Building, Manhattan.

Died. John ("Jack") Linder, 13, of No. 1340 Third Ave., Manhattan; of pneumonia and delay. A police emergency squad was called to take him from his fourth-floor home to a hospital; the delay was considerable because John Linder weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when he easily won the prize for fattest boy and ate his share of 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers at a Tammany children's party in Central Park (TIME, June 11).

Died. Leonard Cline, 36, able reporter, novelist (God Head; Listen, Moon; The Dark Chamber), contributor to TiME/- of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, 54, of the U. S. Public Health Service, discoverer of "vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville, Tex.).

Died. Caspar Whitney, 64, author, editor, explorer (North and South Americas, India, Siam, Malay), onetime war correspondent (Cuba, Mexico, France); of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Harry Coulby, 64, of Cleveland, ("Tsar of the Great Lakes"), ship and steel tycoon (Interlakes Steamship Co., Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.); suddenly; in London.

Died. Walter C. Teter, 66, founder of the community & airport at Teterboro, N. J.; after a short illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Anton A. Tibbe, 70, corncob pipe maker; in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Tibbe made his birthplace, Washington, Mo., the corncob metropolis, when he discovered a method of fireproofing "Missouri Meerschaums."

Died. Henry King Braky, 78, senior justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, onetime mayor of Fall River; after a long illness; in Boston. Justice Braley handed down the court decision on the last Sacco-Vanzetti appeal.

Died. Silvester Hendershot, 82, ''Wild Man of Borneo," for 20 years with the Ringling circus; in the county poorhouse at Platteville, Wis. Once the town dude, he let his wavy hair grow until it reached his waist and practiced making faces until he got a circus job. Barnum's original "Wild Men of Borneo," the brothers Plutano and Wano, who were reputed to have been captured on the island of Borneo and who never learned to speak English, died in 1912 and 1905.

*Mr. Moody began to take tennis lessons a year ago. He has not yet played against Miss Wills in public.

/-His last story was "Demosthenes the Fortunate" (TIME, Jan. 21).