Birthdays. The Dionne Quintuplets: their fourth; in Callander, Ont. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley: his 50th; in Manhattan. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: his 68th; in Port Chester, N. Y. Queen Mary: her 71st; in London.

Engaged. Princess Fawziya, 16, eldest sister of King Farouk of Egypt; and Shahpoor Mohammed Reza, 18, Crown Prince of Iran.

Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean Jr., 19, second son of bizarre Washington Socialite Evalyn L. Walsh McLean; and Ann Carroll Meem, 19, daughter of Washington Banker Henry Grant Meem; in Washington. Best man was Brother John R. McLean II, who married Agnes Pyne Bacon in Reno last April.

Married. Jeffery Farnol, 60, minor English novelist (The Amateur Gentleman, The Broad Highway) who was divorced last fall from U. S.-born Blanche Hawley Farnol; and Phyllis Mark Clarke, his daughter's former music teacher; in Exeter, England.

Died. Sally Clement Bridges, 35, second wife of Senator Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Concord, N. H. Informed of his wife's sudden illness, Senator Bridges flew from Washington to Concord (375 miles), arrived six minutes too late.

Died. William S. Brown, 43, Minneapolis labor leader and for 17 years president of the potent General Drivers Union No. 544; from a shot fired by his bodyguard, Arnold Ralph Johnson; in Minneapolis. Johnson, who had been drinking all afternoon, told police: "Brown flashed a roll of bills. I asked him for a share and he refused. I drew a gun and shot him. He was my best friend."

Died. George Frederick Warren, 64, once (1933-34) Franklin Roosevelt's monetary adviser and champion of the ''rubber dollar"; after long illness; in Ithaca, N. Y. He left Washington quietly in 1934, returned to his teaching post at Cornell University, from which he had planned to retire on June 1.

Died. Dr. John Jacob Abel, 81, professor emeritus of pharmacology at Johns Hopkins: of heart disease; in Baltimore. Among his medical discoveries, two were major: 1) the isolation of epinephrine; 2) the isolation in crystal form of insulin.

Died. Henry Wheeler de Forest, 82, longtime director and former board chairman of Southern Pacific Co., longtime associate of the late Railroader E. H. Harriman; after long illness; in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.

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