Engaged. Arthur Ashe Jr., 33, the 1975 Wimbledon singles champion; and Jeanne Marie Moutoussamy, 25, a freelance photographer who met Ashe last year, when she snapped his picture at a United Negro College Fund benefit.

Died. Anthony Crosland, 58, British Foreign Secretary and one of the Labor movement's leading theorists of democratic socialism; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. The son of a senior civil servant, Crosland went to Oxford, where he earned a first in politics, philosophy and economics. While serving in the House of Commons and in various Labor governments, he wrote several books, including The Future of Socialism (1956), which suggested that class had replaced capitalism as the appropriate target of socialists. After his appointment to Prime Minister James Callaghan's Cabinet last April, Crosland became the chairman of the European Community's Council of Ministers and toiled at reaching a settlement in Rhodesia. He was expected to become Chancellor of the Exchequer this spring.

Died. John F. Dowd, 60, who served as Time Inc.'s chief editorial counsel for 28 years; of heart disease; in Boston. The son of a New York City policeman, Dowd was graduated from St. John's University and Harvard Law School, and worked briefly for a Wall Street firm before coming to TIME as its first in-house counsel. To protect the magazine from lawsuits charging libel or invasion of privacy, Dowd read nearly every word slated for publication, and he was welcomed by the editors as a resourceful partner in this effort. "Any lawyer can say no," said Dowd. "The challenge is to find out what you can publish, and how."

Died. Andy Devine, 71, gargle-voiced actor who played the hero's pudgy sidekick in scores of western films, turned to TV in the 1950s with Wild Bill Hickok and Andy's Gang; of leukemia; in Orange, Calif.

Died. Quincy Howe, 76, author, editor and broadcaster whose Yankee twang was familiar to millions of CBS radio listeners during World War II; of cancer of the larynx; in Manhattan. After studying at Harvard and Cambridge, he worked for the Atlantic Monthly and Living Age magazines, later joined Simon & Schuster as chief book editor at the age of 34. His books on foreign affairs included a sardonic plea to keep the U.S. out of a European war (England Expects Every American to Do His Duty, 1937). His Anglophobia, however, was tempered after the U.S. joined the conflict. Following the war, Howe continued as a broadcaster, taught journalism, helped found and edit Atlas magazine.

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