Engaged. Carolin Babcock, 26, ranking U. S. tennis star; to Richard Salisbury Stark, of Santa Monica, Calif.; in Los Angeles. Tennist Babcock has been on five U. S. Wightman Cup teams, was runner-up in the 1932 U. -S. Women's Championship.

Married. Howard Carrington Kresge, son of chain-store Merchant Sebastian Spering Kresge (5-10-25-c- stores); to Anna May Walker, of Detroit.

Awarded. To Mrs. Drew Pearson, wife of the Washington columnist; exclusive custody and care of Tyler Abell, 5, her son by her first husband, Washington Journal ist George Abell; in Reno, Nev. In August Mr. & Mrs. Pearson pursued George and Tyler Abell to the Island of Sark, in the English Channel, "kidnapped" Tyler. The court held that George Abell forfeited custody of Tyler by violating a previous Nevada decree forbidding him to take Tyler out of the U. S.

Died. Mrs. Florence Emily Dugdale Hardy, 56, widow of the late Novelist Thomas Hardy; in Dorchester, England. Before she became 74-year-old Novelist Hardy's second wife in 1914, Mrs. Hardy had written five successful children's books.

Died. Alceo Dossena, 60, Italian sculptor who was "born 500 years too late"; of a brain hemorrhage; in Rome. Sculptor Dossena, regarded as a genius in his own right, gained fame by being so adept at copying old masters that he fooled experts. His copies were sold as genuine, brought more than $2,000,000.

Died. Robert Underwood Johnson, 84, poet, onetime (1909-13) editor of Century magazine, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, director of the New York University Hall of Fame; one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in Manhattan.

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