Engaged. Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 19, only daughter of the late Cinemactor John ("Great Lover") Gilbert and his second wife, onetime Cinemactress Leatrice Joy; to George Hoover, 28, a U.S. Army private; in Hollywood.

Engaged. Major Richard Ira Bong, 23, U.S. fighter-pilot ace (27 Japs); and Marge Vattendahl, 20, student at Superior (Wis.) State Teachers' College, whose supersized photograph is emblazoned on his battlewise P-38; in Superior.

Married. Laura Hallie Walker, 20, only daughter of Postmaster General Frank C. Walker; and Army Captain Robert Louis Ameno, 28; in Manhattan. One of the bridesmaids was Ann Farley, daughter of ex-Postmaster General James A. Farley.

Married. Estelle Winwood, 61, vivacious character actress (Ladies in Retirement, The Pirate); and Robert Henderson, 38, director of Toronto's Royal Alexandria Theater; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan. Because she was superstitious about May marriages (she has never been a May bride), the ceremony began at 12:05 a.m., June 1.

Sued for Divorce. Antenor Patino, son & heir of Bolivia;s Tin King Simon Patino (one of the world's five richest men); by Cristina de Bourbon Patino, 31, onetime (1938) world's "best-dressed" woman, niece of Spain's ex-King Alfonso; after 13 years of marriage; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Brian Aherne, 42, debonair, British-born cinemactor; by wistful, Oscar-winning (Suspicion) Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, 26, who once called him "the perfect husband"; after four and a half years of marriage; in Los Angeles. She charged extreme cruelty, claimed that although she was allergic to dust he made her visit his desert ranch.

Died. Bruno Granichstaedten, 64, Viennese composer whose operettas (Orlow, The Rose Maid), were as famed in the early 1900s as the works of Contemporaries Lehar and Strauss; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Exiled by the Nazis in 1939, he had been looking forward to the production this fall of a new work, The Singing Caesar.

Died. John Ridgely Carter, 81, J. P. Morgan partner, onetime diplomat; in Manhattan. He reluctantly quit diplomacy in 1911 when he found he could not afford to accept an appointment as minister to Argentina: "I ascertained that the rent for a suitable house would equal my salary. ... A predecessor, I was told, went $300,000 in debt." He joined Morgan to make his fortune, in 1926 became senior partner of the Paris branch, lived abroad until the Nazis took over.

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