Engaged. James Joseph Patterson, 21, West Point cadet, only son of New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; and Dorothy Marie Clarke, 21, of Ossining, N.Y., his onetime grade-school flame; in Ossining.

Sued for Divorce. By Cinemactress Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, cinemaspirant, one time broker; almost two years after their marriage (for each the second), 14 months after its annulment, 13 months after their remarriage, nine months after the birth of their daughter ; in Los Angeles. She charged extreme cruelty, asked for custody of Cheryl Christinia Crane, sought no alimony.

Died. John Peale Bishop, 51, West Virginia-born poet; of heart disease; in Hyannis, Mass.

Died. John Maudgridge Snowden Allison, 55, eloquently lecturing Yale historian (Thiers and the French Monarchy), Princetonian ('10); after a brief illness; in New Haven.

Died. Inglis Moore Uppercu, 66, one time world's largest retailer of luxury cars (Manhattan's Uppercu Cadillac Corp.); after a long illness; in Manhattan. The fair-haired, blue-eyed Chicagoan closed his law books in 1896 to work as a Duryea automobile mechanic, in 1931 after 29 years as Cadillac's master salesman sold out to General Motors for $2,250,000.

Died. Percy Selden Straus, 67, onetime president of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. department store (1933-40), last of the third generation of Straus merchandisers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The high-domed Harvardman ('97) Put aside academic ambitions to enter Macy's, remained the scholar of the fraternal trio which also included (Idea-Man) Jesse, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, and (Idea-Muller) Herbert. To gether they expanded the cash-policy business started by their grandfather with a china concession in Capt. R. H. Macy's 114th Street emporium, continued by their father Isidor (lost on the Titanic).

Died. Rose O'Neill, 69, cartoonist creator of the "Kewpie Doll"; in Springfield, Mo. Exquisitely beautiful daughter of an Irish ne'er-do-well who later retired to a Missouri chasm, the onetime Omaha convent girl became a newspaper cartoonist at 13, in later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than $1,400,000.

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