Married. Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 23, grandson of late Brewer August Busch (Anheuser-Busch), who was kidnapped ten years ago and recovered unharmed next day; and Ann Patricia Thornley, 20, Manhattan debutante; in Manhattan.
Awarded. The 1941 Pulitzer Prizes in letters and journalism, to: Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, for his wartime Broadway success There Shall Be No Night; Marcus Lee Hansen (posthumously), late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"; Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its campaign against smoke nuisance in St. Louis. To the New York Times went a special citation for "the public educational value of its foreign-news reports."
Died. Pilot Officer John Anthony Atwill, 25, son by his first marriage of veteran British Cinemactor Lionel Atwill; "as the result of enemy action" while flying for the R.A.F.
Died. Pilot Officer Richard W. S. Inge, 25, Cambridge-educated clergyman, youngest son of Dr. W. R. Inge, famed onetime "Gloomy Dean" of London's bombed St. Paul's Cathedral; "on active service" with the R.A.F.
Died. Charles Hooper, 57, "world's champion writer of Letters to the Editor"; in San Francisco. Hooper, whose range of subjects included irrigation, straw hats for horses, decreasing reverence for the Bible and the political astuteness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, estimated in 1937 that he had written 78,000 letters, claimed to be "possibly the only man 'in the world who does nothing but write letters to newspapers."
Died. Edwin S. Porter, 71, pioneer motion-picture inventor and producer; after long illness; in Manhattan. A collaborator with Thomas Alva Edison in the development of the motion-picture camera, Inventor Porter lived to participate in important research on sound and color films. In 1899 he made for Edison the first story film when he produced a 500-ft. subject called The Life of an American Fireman. Four years later, in the wilds of Essex County, N.J., he made The Great Train Robbery, first Western thriller.