Engaged. Lammot du Pont, 53, board chairman of General Motors Corp., president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and Margaret A. Flett, Wilmington clubwoman. He has seven children by two previous marriages.

Married. Richard Bunn (Richard Bonelli), 40, Metropolitan Opera baritone; and Mona Chapman Wood, 30, of Los Angeles (her mother and late father were opera singers); each for the second time; in Riverside, Calif.

Married. Marion Hughes Whitehead, 22, divorced wife of Conkey Pate Whitehead, Atlanta bottling scion; and Andrew Granville Pierce III, 25, son of the one-time board chairman of American Woolen Co.; in Manhattan.

Seeking Divorce. From Paavo Nurmi, 36, famed Finnish runner: Sylvi Laaksonen Nurmi, his wife since May 1932. In Turku, Finland, Nurmi's birthplace, Mrs. Nurmi told reporters that he broke promises to give up the track, neglected his family to keep in training, complained that his year-old son's feet were too small for him to become a great runner.

Left. By David Belasco, theatrical producer (TIME, May 25, 1931): $1,249,144 (shrunk to $621,162 last June); mostly to his Daughter Reina, wife of Producer Morris Gest.

Died. William Nuckles Doak, 50. Hoover Secretary of Labor, onetime railroad yardman; of heart disease; in "Notre Nid," his Virginia home across the Potomac from Washington.

Died. Major Robert Young Stuart. 50, head of the U. S. Forest Service; when he flumped from a seventh-floor window of the Forest Service building in Washington.

Died. Hugh Bancroft, 54, publisher, president of Dow, Jones & Co. (world's largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge.

Died. Jeannelle Wilson Dennis, wife of Editor Charles Henry Dennis of the Chicago Daily News; after long illness; in Chicago.

Died. Vithalbhai Javerbhai Patel, 60, Indian Nationalist leader, twice president of the Indian Legislative Assembly; of heart disease; in a clinic near Geneva.

Died. Stephen J. ("Steve") Farrell, 69, longtime (1912-30) University of Michigan track coach; of a heart attack; on the university golf course at Ann Arbor. Connecticut-born, he learned to run as a volunteer fireman, was a harness-mate of three fleet youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race, in which he consistently outran the horse. In 1898 he stumbled over a dog, broke his leg, thereafter coached at Yale, Maine and Ohio State, before settling at Michigan. Once able to jump 11 ft. backward, at 68 he could still do 8 ft.

Died. Philip De Catesby Ball, 69. president of the St. Louis Browns; of septicemia, after long illness; in St. Louis.

Died. Jacob Liebl, German fisherman; in Starnberg, near Munich. Writers and tourists visited Fisherman Liebl ever since June 1886, when he recovered the bodies of Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, extravagant lover of music and solitary magnificence, and of his physician-guardian, both mysteriously drowned in Starnberger Lake.

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