Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper.

Engaged. Leo B. Gorcey, 20, granite-faced "Dead End Kid" (Spit); and Katherine Mavis, 17, drama student; in Hollywood.

Died. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, 34, madcap, four-times-married grandson of Chicago's late rich hotelkeeper and merchant; of a cerebral hemorrhage; four days after a brawl he had started at a barbecue; in Sarasota, Fla. Last year his brother Honore, 29, died while doing setting up exercises in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 21, 1938).*

Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London.

Died. Mrs. Edward Lascelles, 50, sister-in-law of Princess Mary's husband, the Earl of Harewood; by her own hand (shooting) ; in Lutterworth, England.

Died. Frank Moulan, 63, veteran Gilbert & Sullivan baritone ("Ko-Ko," "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," "Sir Joseph Porter") ; in Manhattan.

Died. James Hardy, 64, famed aerialist; of heart disease; in Toronto. In 1896 he wire-walked across Niagara Falls. Though not the first,/- Foolhardy Hardy was one of the rashest, capered, balanced on chairs.

Died. Carl Raymond Gray, 71, railroad executive, onetime president of Union Pacific (1920-37); of heart disease; in Washington. Mr. Gray's first job, in 1883, was swabbing spittoons in a backwoods railroad depot. In 1937 his wife, Harriette Flora Gray, was elected "Typical American Mother." Last September a son, Dr. Howard K. Gray, surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, operated on James Roosevelt for a stomach ulcer (TIME, Oct. 10).

Died. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 77, second son of a famed medical family; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 50 years as diagnostician, specialist on internal medicine and drug addiction, Dr. Lambert treated Theodore Roosevelt, Major General Leonard Wood, Samuel Gompers, many another notable. Of his eight pallbearers (all kin), four were doctors.

* Not to be confused with Potter D'Orsay Palmer is his less-publicized, well-behaved first cousin, Potter Palmer III, Chicago adman.

/- Years before, Frenchman Blondin, among others, preceded him, dressed as an ape.

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