ENGAGED. Prince Tomohito, 34, Oxford-educated son of Japan's Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito; and Nobuko Aso, 25, a Tokyo English teacher whose grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, was his country's first elected postwar Prime Minister. The Council of Imperial Household Affairs had to approve the marriage (probably in October) of the shy commoner and the affable prince, whose first proposal seven years ago was turned down because of her age. Her description of her fiance: "warm-hearted."

DIED. Joseph Page, 62, hard-throwing lefthander who elevated relief pitching to a prized craft by saving scores of games for the New York Yankees during the late 1940s and helping them win two World Series; of a heart attack; in Latrobe, Pa. When Page's major league career began in 1944, records were not kept on how many games a reliefer salvaged, but in seven years he is thought to have pulled out 100 to 150, including a brilliant 1949 season when his record was 13 wins, eight losses and a spectacular 27 saves.

DIED. Jane Froman, 72, spunky St. Louis-born singer and actress whose long fight to surmount crippling injuries suffered in a 1943 plane crash was dramatized in the 1952 movie With a Song in My Heart; of a heart attack; in Columbia, Mo. Froman was a popular balladeer en route to entertain troops when her flight crashed near Lisbon. Her marriage to the pilot who saved her life had a fairy-tale flavor, and the optimism she maintained through more than 30 operations on her crippled legs touched millions, especially when she sang such sentimental favorites as I'll Walk Alone and Climb Ev'ry Mountain.

DIED. Thomas K. Finletter, 86, Wall Street lawyer and perennial Washington appointee who was instrumental in the expansion of the Air Force as a powerful arm of the U.S. military after its creation in 1947; in New York City. Finletter headed a commission on military aviation policy whose persuasive 1948 report, Survival in the Air Age, led to a tripling of the fledgling Air Force's size and to his appointment during the Korean War as the service's second Secretary. He advocated both high military preparedness and universal disarmament, arguing that "world peace and the security of the U.S. are one and the same thing."

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