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 submarine force; somewhere near the west coast. A plane carrying him from Pearl Harbor circled near San Francisco, disappeared in the fog, four days later had not yet been heard from. He commanded the submarine 0-4 in War I, won the Navy cross for patrol duty, was made commander of the Pacific submarines in 1941.

Killed on Duty. Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada’s crack “Princess Pat” Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July.

Died. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 46, U.S. Minister to Canada; of an embolism; in Ottawa. One of the ablest of the career diplomats, he had been with the State Department 25 years, served in various capacities at The Hague, Warsaw, Tokyo, Constantinople, Brussels, Bern, Geneva, Sydney and Washington. He was chief of the Division of European Affairs from 1937 to 1940, when he replaced James H. R. Cromwell in Ottawa. He was a descendant of first Chief Justice John Jay, married the elder daughter of ex-Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph C. Grew.

Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York’s Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta (“Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity”), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed the library again.