Engaged. Alice Brisbane, 20, daughter of late famed Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane; and Army Air Forces Lieut. Elbert Haring Chandor, 23, Manhattan Social Registerite, Princeton ('42).
Married. Camilla Sewall Edge, 21, brunette daughter of New Jersey's Governor Walter Evans Edge, cousin of Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall; and Army Lieut. Edward Brooke Lee Jr., 26, Princeton ('40), of Silver Spring, Md.; in Trenton, NJ.
Married. Army Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 24, youngest son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; and American Red Cross Worker Frances Webb, 26, of Kansas City and Smith College ('38); in Blandford, England. Butterfly-Collector Roosevelt collected the Silver Star and a shell fragment with the field artillery in North Africa. His best man: his father.
Killed in Action. First Lieut. Peter Gerald Lehman, 27, eldest son of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Director Herbert Henry Lehman, roommate of top-flight U.S. Ace Captain Don Gentile; in the crash of his fighter plane; somewhere in England. Powerful, popular, jovial Lehman, a football player at Lehigh (ex-'40), joined the R.C.A.F. after having been rejected (because he was married) by the Army & Navy Air Corps, served 18 months of active service in England as a sergeant-pilot before transferring to the U.S.A.A.F. as a flight officer. He had completed 57 combat missions, been awarded the Air Medal and three Oak Leaf clusters, was scheduled to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Died. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern — the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit or vigilante in a Western stagecoach holdup. He claimed to have knocked out John L. Sullivan in a private bout in Manhattan. Ubiquitous grey-toppered leader of English sporting-life, the Earl deplored the passing of such gentlemanly pursuits as "bare knuckles, toe-to-toe" and bearbaiting. He calculated his personal budget on the assumption that he would die at 80, lived royally and fantastically, kept hordes of Rolls-Royces, loved to flash across the countryside in the midst of a cavalcade of them.