Milestones, Feb. 10, 1941

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Engaged. Marisa ("Gogo") Schiaparelli, 21, beauteous, blue-eyed daughter of Couturière Elsa Schiaparelli; and Robert Berenson, 27, Grace Line travel executive, second cousin of famed expatriate Art Critic Bernard Berenson; in Manhattan.

Married. Annie Laurine Dodge, 23, onetime telephone operator, widow of Automobile Heir Daniel George Dodge who drowned on their honeymoon and left her $1,250,000; and Dr. William Anding Lange, 32, Detroit plastic surgeon; in Champaign, Ill. They met when she went to his office as a patient.

Married. Sarah Brisbane McCrary, 27, daughter of the late Editor-Columnist Arthur Brisbane; and Chase Mellen Jr., 43, Deputy Treasurer of New York City, last year leader of Republicans-for-Roosevelt in New York City; she for the second time; in Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia performed the ceremony.

Married. Osa Helen Johnson, 46, explorer, author (I Married Adventure), and film producer, whose husband, Martin Johnson, died in an airplane crash in 1937; and Clark H. Getts, 47, her manager for the last five years; in Manhattan.

Died. Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, 58, Egypt's Minister of Defense, and premier at the start of World War II; of long illness which caused him to retire 14 months ago from the premiership; in Cairo.

Died. Dr. Franz Gürtner, 59, German Minister of Justice since 1932; in Berlin. He helped to formulate the 1938 decrees which destroyed the economic position of the Reich's remaining half-million Jews, described mass murders of Jews as "valid not only as law but as deeds of statesmanlike beauty."

Died. Police Inspector Matthew J. Mc-Grath, 64, massive, Tipperary-born New York City cop who competed for the U. S. in four Olympics (1908-12-20-24), set an American record in 1911 for the 56-pound weight (40 ft., 6⅜ in.) that still stands; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 76, third president of the University of Minnesota (1911-17), former president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1917-29), president and honorary president of Chautauqua (which his father founded) from 1907 to 1937; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. William Constant Wheeler, 93, last son of a soldier in the American Revolution; after a stroke; at South Woodbury, Vt. His father, Comfort Wheeler, enlisted in 1780 at the age of 14, and served as General Nathanael Greene's orderly. Born when his father was 81, Constant himself fought in the Civil War.