Married. Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, 50, Chief of the Army Service Forces; and Louise Hampton Wartmann, 49, friend from his West Point days; both for the second time; in Ocala, Fla.
Remarried. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 42, veteran Scripps-Howard columnist, now in North Africa and Geraldine Siebolds Pyle, 43, eleven months after their divorce (after 16 years); by proxy; in Albuquerque, N.M.
Died. Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (John Brown's Body) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A more popular poet than either his brother William Rose or his sister Laura, he was also a deft fiction writer (The...
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