Engaged. Irene Mayer, 22, daughter of Cinemagnate Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn) Mayer; and David O. Selznick, 27, Assistant General Manager of Paramount-Famous-Lasky Studios; at Hollywood.

Married. George Newell Armsby, 53, financier (Bancamerica-Blair Corp., California Packing Corp.); and Colette Touzeau, 36, daughter of Henri Touzeau, onetime French master at Eton College, England; in Glendale, Calif. The honeymoon : in Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille's mountain cabin.

Divorced. Philander Chase Knox Jr., son of the late Senator from. Pennsylvania and Secretary of State (1909-13); by Josephine Poole Knox; for excessive intoxication and cruelty. She said he had appeared before her guests dressed in pyjamas.

Birthday. Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, of Illinois, candidate for Republican nomination for U. S. Senator; at Chicago. Age: 50. Date: March 27.

Birthday. George Fisher Baker, Board Chairman of New York's First National Bank, director of many a corporation (U. S. Steel, New York Central); at Jeky Is., Ga. Age: 90. Date, March 27.

Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away.

Died. Nicholas Frederic Brady, 51, Chairman of New York Edison Co., director of 50 other companies (mostly utilities), "greatest lay Catholic," of arthritis, at his Manhattan home.

Died. Capt. William Rind, 57, commander of S. S. President Harding, amateur painter, musician; of an apoplectic stroke; as his ship was entering Plymouth Harbor.

Died. Donna Maria Sarto, 81, last surviving sister of the late Pope Pius X; in Rome. In spite of their poverty, she and her late sister adopted two war orphans, performed many an act of kindness for the city's poor. For burying her sister, she gave agnostic Prime Minister Mussolini her holy brother's skull cap. Later she received a small annuity from the Vatican.

Died. Mrs. Jennie Merryweather Rivens Byrd, 91, relict of Col. William Byrd, grandmother of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia; at Baltimore.

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