Killed in Action. Captain Peter Wood, 26, of the Yorkshire Dragoons, younger son of Lord Halifax; somewhere in Egypt.

Engaged. Corporal Marion Hargrove, 23, writer of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove, feature writer on Yank; and Alison Pfeiffer, 20, senior at Smith College.

Married. Adah Wilson McCormick, 38, widow of Harold Fowler McCormick, harvester millionaire; and George Tait II, 30, aircraft engineer; in Phoenix. Longtime nurse of McCormick, who left her a fortune when he died at 69 a year ago, she was his third wife (first: Edith Rockefeller; second: Diva Ganna Walska).

Divorced. Martha Foley Burnett, 40, co-founder and longtime co-editor of Story magazine; by bearded co-founder and co-editor Whit Burnett, 43; after twelve years; in Reno. Few hours later he married Hallie Southgate Abbett, 34, Reno divorcee of October.

Died. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, 54, famed body builder to Broadway and Wall Street; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A onetime flyweight fighter, he did fairly well as a gym instructor till 1925, then shot to fame by reconditioning Babe Ruth, who came out of a slump of 25 home runs to knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position). Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen, Paul Whiteman, John J. Raskob were among his customers. Least cooperative, he once recalled, was a Tammanyite who for a year paid $300 a month for home treatments, had a hangover every time McGovern came to the house, never let him in.

Died. Edmund Somerville Tattersall, 79, world-famed auctioneer of race horses; in London. Stout, white-haired, softspoken, he was senior partner in the auctioneering firm founded by Richard Tattersall in 1766. Association of the name Tattersall with horse auctions and horsey people became so close that the name joined the language: a tattersall is 1) a horse market, 2) the alarmingly brilliant sort of vest some people wear around paddocks.

Died. John Whorter ("Professor") Zeno, 87, "grandfather of parachuting"; near Memphis. As a handlebar-mustached young man in a skin-tight costume he thrilled crowds in the '80s by jumping from ascension balloons. "For the first 400 feet there is no movement on the part of the parachute to open," he said in 1898. . . . It is that first drop that looks hazardous and sometimes, when the parachute is faulty, it is, but not otherwise."

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