Engaged. James Roosevelt, Harvard College junior, son of Governor and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York; to Betsy Cushing of Brookline, Mass., daughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, leading U. S. surgeon and 1925 Pulitzer Prize biographer (The Life of Sir William Osier).

Engaged. Ralph Wentworth Cram of Boston, son of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram; to Miss Florence Heath of Middleboro, Mass.

Married. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of Manhattan, potent baseballer (New York Yankees) and Mrs. Claire Hodgson, widowed showgirl; in Manhattan, at 5:45 a. m. The first Mrs. Ruth, long estranged from her husband and living with a dentist of Watertown, Mass., was recently burned to death (TIME, Jan. 21).

Married. Natalie Price Guggenheim, 18, of Roslyn, L. I., daughter of Copper Tycoon Edmond A. Guggenheim; and Thomas M. Gorman, 27, of Port Washington, L. I., real estate broker, son of a station agent; secretly, three weeks ago, in Great Neck, L. I. Last week Mrs. Gorman sailed for France with her parents. Mr. Gorman stayed home.

Married. Roger Culver Tredwell, 44, U. S. Consul General at Hongkong; and Metta-Louise Orr of Manhattan; in Tokyo.

Married. Henry Latham Doherty, 58. of Manhattan, self-made public utilities and oil tycoon (Cities Service Co., Henry L. Doherty & Co.), "richest U. S. bachelor"; and Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, 40, relict of an International Harvester Co. foreign official; secretly, on Dec. 31 last; in Toronto. Mrs. Eames had nursed Tycoon Doherty through a nearly fatal arthritis illness. An Eames daughter, 18, is being schooled in Spain. Last week, in Atlantic City, N. J., the Dohertys planned a return to Manhattan. In the luxurious Doherty penthouse apartment, the Doherty bed, at punch of button, moves on rails to a sun porch overlooking the harbor.

Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Helen Louise Thomas Hays of Sullivan, Ind. ; by Will H. Hays, 49, of Manhattan, famed cinema-arbiter, U. S. Postmaster-General in the Harding cabinet. Grounds: incompatibility. They were married in 1902, have been separated for several years. Mr. Hays asked custody of Will H. Hays Jr., 14. Died. William L. Strong, 44, of Peoria, Ill., famed lightning calculator; on a rail-road viaduct in Bartonville, Ill., where he was mentally adding the figures on passing box cars for practice. Calculator Strong told builders the number of bricks needed for walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said: "I don't know how I do it." A year ago he had a red granite stone set up in a cemetery inscribed: ''William L. Strong, world's greatest mathematician. Wonderful."

Died. Sir Hildebrand Aubrey Harmsworth, 57, of London, British journalist (New Liberal Review, The Globe), brother of famed British journalists Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth) and the late Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth) ; in London.

Died. Dr. William Westley Guth, 57, of Baltimore, president of Goucher College, onetime lawyer, Methodist pastor, classmate (1895) of President Hoover at Leland Stanford, in Baltimore.

Died. William Spry, 65, of Salt Lake City, since 1921 Commissioner of the General Land Office (Department of the Interior), twice (1909-17) Governor of Utah, Republican, Mormon, native of England; of paralysis; in Washington, D. C.

Died. William Gillies Ross, 65, Montreal, financier (asbestos, public utilities) ; in Montreal.

Died. Prince Henry of Hohenzollern, 66, of Berlin, brother of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, Wartime commander of Germany's Baltic fleet; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Berlin. Popular Prince Henry visited the U. S. in 1884 and 1902, was caricatured in many a newspaper passing under festal arches of sausages, pretzels.

Died. The Rev. A. E. Gobble, 70, of Myerstown, Pa., longtime Latin department head and secretary of Albright College, in Myerstown.

Died. James Allan MacDonald, 86, of Flushing, L. I., founder-president, long-time vice president of United Verde Copper Co.; in Flushing.