Engaged. Nancy Whitney, 23, daughter of Richard Whitney, onetime, now incarcerated president of the New York Stock Exchange; and Henry Averell Gerry, polo-playing grandson of Commodore Elbridge Thomas Gerry; in Manhattan.

Married. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith Plumley, 29, first wife of Zachary Smith Reynolds (his second: Torch Singer Libby Holman), tobacco heir found shot to death in 1932; and Albert C. Wharton Jr.; she for the fourth time; in Bunnell, Fla.

Marriage Revealed. William P. Buckner Jr., 33, sporty bondster; and Adelaide Moffett, 26, nightclub-crooning daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett. secretly Feb. 8; in Danville, Va. Last week Bridegroom Buckner went to prison to serve two years for mail fraud (TIME, July 10).

Died. Prince Alexander Obolensky, 24, Russian-born British Air Force pilot; in a plane crash when landing at an East Anglian airport, England.

Died. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 47; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. Her first husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor, went down with the Titanic April 15, 1912, while U. S.-bound from their honeymoon; four months later she bore his posthumous son, John Jacob Astor. Her second husband: William Karl Dick, New York socialite (divorced 1933). Her third: Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist (divorced 1938).

Died. Sir John Gilmour, 63, Minister of Shipping in the Chamberlain Cabinet; of heart disease brought on by worry and overwork; in London.

Died. William Horlick Jr., 64. malted milk tycoon; of heart disease; in Racine, Wis.

Died. Michael Joseph Savage, 68. Laborite Prime Minister of New Zealand since 1935; of cancer; in Wellington, N. Z. He introduced the 40-hour week, raised basic wages, scared business, but kept power through London credits and urban labor votes. Suffering from stomach cancer, he refused to be operated on during the campaign of 1938, found last year it had spread to his liver.

Died. Spyro Loues, 72, peasant winner of the marathon in the first modern Olympic Games (1896); in Athens.

Died. Harry Clay Adler, 74, longtime general manager of the Chattanooga Times, brother-in-law of the late, great Publisher Adolpa S. Ochs and father of Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, vice president and general manager of the New York Times; after a long illness; in Chattanooga.

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