Born. To Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., son of the board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. and stepson of Pauline Morton Sabin, anti-Prohibition strategist; and Dorothy Layman Sabin; a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ibs., 8 oz. Name: Thomas Whitney.

Engaged. Anne Barton Townsend, 32, Philadelphia socialite, all-around athlete (field hockey, basketball, tennis, squash racquets), ten-time member of the All-American women's field hockey team; and Livingston Smith, Philadelphia architect, onetime University of Pennsylvania footballer.

Married. Lily Busch Magnus, great-granddaughter of the late St. Louis Brewer Adolphus Busch; and Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; in St. Louis. Three days before the wedding, gunmen captured the country house of George S. Tiffany, knocked him out, planned to rob his guests at a luncheon for the bride & groom, until foiled by a steward from the swank Bridlespur Club.

Married. Doris Mercer Kresge, divorced wife of 5-&-10-c- Store Man Sebastian S. Kresge who claimed she wanted $10,000,000 to bear a child; and Prince Farid Khan Sadri, onetime chamberlain to Persia's late Ahmed Shah Kadjar; in civil and Mohammedan ceremonies, the bride remaining Christian; in Paris.

Married. Gilbert Wolff Kahn, 29, banker son of Manhattan Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, divorced husband of Anna Elizabeth Whelan Kahn, cigar store heiress; and Sara Jane Heliker, 22, Manhattan showgirl who last month quit Take a Chance at the groom's ultimatum; in Manhattan.

Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock.

Died. Rosemary McAuliffe Wallen, 19, youngest daughter of Eugene McAuliffe, president of Union Pacific Coal Co., assistant to Union Pacific Railroad's President Carl Raymond Gray; and Bernard Kinney, 21, son of Editor Vincent Kinney of Omaha's labor newspaper Unionist; by asphyxiation (carbon monoxide gas) in an automobile on the grounds of Omaha's Field Club.

Died. Addison Mizner, 60, famed Palm Beach host, raconteur, realtor, author (The Many Mizners), architect credited with reviving Spanish architecture in Florida, son of the late Architect Lansing Bond Mizner who planned San Francisco; of a heart attack after a two-month illness; in Palm Beach, Fla. Just before he died he received a telegram from his brother Wilson, "Stop dying. Am trying to write a comedy." He replied, "Am going to get well. The comedy goes on."

Died. John G. ("Paul Revere") Parke, 67, chief engineer of Pittsburgh Steel Co. who in 1889 galloped down Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Valley warning the people of the imminent water wall, half a mile wide, 20 ft. high, hurling a spearhead of trees, houses, machinery, rocks, tangled barbed wire and human bodies toward Johnstown (dead: 2,000); after long illness; in Monessen, Pa.

Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clementine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests.

Born. To the U. S. Naval Academy's football mascot goat, Old Bill; and a nameless nanny of the Academy's herd: two kids; in Annapolis, Md.

Died. Sopa, 200, the London Zoo's huge tortoise, "oldest inhabitant of England," whose shell creaked when he walked; of old age; in London.

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