Engaged. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, alert, active (despite the loss of both legs in the fighting in North Africa) younger son of the Earl of Halifax, former British Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 19, daughter of the late Lieut. Colonel Edward O. Kellett, M.P.; in London.

Married. Marjorie Vattendahl Bong, 22, comely widow of U.S. Ace of Aces (40 kills) Major Richard I. Bong; and James H. Baird, 22, youthful Los Angeles businessman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood.

Married. Genevieve Sullivan, 29, ex-WAVE, sister of the highly publicized five Sullivan brothers who went down with the cruiser Juneau off Guadalcanal; and Murray W. Davidson, 29; both for the first time; in Chicago.

Married. Sophia Christina Feith, 35, former governess of The Netherlands' royal children; and Johan Roeell, 42, engineer; in the presence of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard; bridesmaids: Princess Beatrix, 8, Princess Irene, 7; in Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Died. Colonel Myron Ray Wood, 53, who rose from aviation cadet in World War I to head the Ninth A.A.F. Service Command in Europe in 1944, became postwar A.A.F. Chief of Supply; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Thomas L. Bailey, 58, Bilbo-hating Mississippi politico, Governor of the State since 1944; after long illness; in Jackson, Miss.

Died. Leonard P. Ayres, 67, economic analyst and topnotch statistician, one of the few to call the turn on the 1929 crash, whose monthly bulletins and annual forecasts gave him great prestige among big and little businessmen, and whose statistical job for the U.S. Army and War Department in two wars brought him the rank of brigadier general; of a heart attack; in Cleveland.

Died. Charles Despiau, 72, French sculptor, pupil of famed Auguste Rodin, sponsor during the Nazi occupation of Hitler's third-rate court sculptor Arno Breker; in Paris.

Died. Helen Bannerman, eightyish, shy, retiring author and original illustrator of The Story of Little Black Sambo, which has delighted moppets for nearly half a century (though it has lately been cried down by the Association for Childhood Education as a fomenter of racial discrimination), has been translated into many a foreign language, was once published simultaneously in the U.S. in 15 different pirated editions; in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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