Milestones, Feb. 1, 1943

Married. Jerome Weidman, 29, novelist (I Can Get It for You Wholesale), short story writer (The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie"), OWI pamphleteer; and Peggy Wright, 29, New York newspaperwoman; in Manhattan.

Missing at Sea. Lieut. Thomas Sargent La Farge, 38, of the Coast Guard Reserve, mural painter, grandson of the late Painter John La Farge, cousin of Writer Oliver La Farge; somewhere in the Atlantic. He was skipper of the Coast Guard cutter Natsek, presumed by the Navy to be lost after being unheard of for "several weeks."

Missing on Duty. Rear Admiral Robert Henry English, 55, commander of the Pacific Fleet's...

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