Engaged. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, 33 ("Hollywood's No. i Bachelor Girl"); and Actor's Agent Frederick Brisson, 29; in Hollywood.

Married. Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 36, ex-husband of Joan Crawford; and Cinemactress Jean Wallace (Walasek), 18, Hollywood newcomer.

Married. Harold ("Red") Grange, 37, University of Illinois football sensation of 1923, '24 '25, now working for a mineral-water company; and Margaret Hazelburg, 24, airline stewardess; in Crown Point, Ind.

Died. Dr. Frederick Bertram Robin son, 58, ex-President of New York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned in 1938.

Died. Charles Furnas, 61, the Wright brothers' first air passenger; in Dayton, Ohio. Mechanic for the brothers in 1908, he was taken up several times by Orville. He never learned to fly, after 1908 never went aloft again.

Died. Harold Fowler McCormick, 69, reaper millionaire, Chicago opera angel; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska in 1931, helped found the Chicago Grand Opera Co. in 1934. Ill during the last years of his life, he married Adah Wilson, his nurse, in 1938.

Died. Dr. John Stanley Plaskett, 75, Canadian astronomer, a leading authority on the motions of faint stars, the Milky Way's rotation, the nature of matter in interstellar space; in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Two of the largest stars, "Plaskett's Twins," were named after him.

Died. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., 81, pioneer meat packer, president (1910-26) of the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago. Onetime stockyard cowboy, he and his brother Michael worked for Armour & Co., later established their own business. In 1900 Edward Sr. ransomed his son Edward Jr. from Kidnapper Pat Crowe for $25,000 in gold.

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