Engaged. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, curly-haired eldest daughter of Britain's Labor Prime Minister; to Harold William Shipton, 26, bespectacled electrical engineer; in London.

Divorced. Tommy Dorsey, 41, balding bandleader who is billed as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"; by onetime Cinemactress Patricia Dane ("Tommy," she announced, "is the first person I'll have a date with when I return to Los Angeles"); in Reno.

Died. Manuel Rodriguez, 30, "Manolete, El Monstruo" (the monster), the greatest bullfighter of his day, the idol of millions of Spaniards and Latin Americans; from traumatic shock after a cornada (horn wound); in Linares, Spain (see INTERNATIONAL).

Died. Hugh McQuillan, 49, who pitched for the New York Giants in three successive pennant victories (1922-24) after being sold by the Boston Braves for $100,000; of cancer; in Queens, N.Y.

Died. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton Vanderbilt, 50, second wife* of the late William K. Vanderbilt II (former president of the New York Central Railroad and brother of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, onetime Duchess of Marlborough); after long illness; in Northport, N.Y.

Died. Raymond S. Springer, 64, old-line Republican Representative from Indiana, writer of last June's legislation controlling the export of petroleum to Russia; of a heart attack; in Connersville, Ind.

Died. Clark Wissler, 76, anthropologist, authority on the American Indian; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. As curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, Wissler built one of the best collections of Indian material in the U.S., once delighted reporters by announcing: "Red hair has no influence whatever on the contour of legs.. . ."

Died. Abraham Livingston Gump, 77, head of San Francisco's S. G. Gump & Co., a discreetly luxurious store dealing in Oriental objets d'art (including one of the best jade collections in the world); of a heart attack; in San Francisco.

Died. Frederick ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, 79, notorious GOPolitical boss of Chicago in its toughest, Al Capone-infested days; of a coronary thrombosis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An oldtime machine politician, Lundin was the power behind William Hale ("Big Bill') Thompson's 1915 election as mayor and Governor Len Small's infamous state administration.

*Her first husband: the late Barclay Harding Warburton Jr., Bucks County, Pa. socialite.

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