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Married. Thomas Hambly Beck, 66, board chairman of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine), side-liner in private aviation and bird conservation; and Martha Margaret Gallagher, 41, retired actress; he for the third time, she for the first; in New Milford, Conn...
...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
...third-rater. Gregarious, greying Leslie Roberts, 51, a longtime newsman, was executive assistant to Canada's Minister of National Defense in the early years of the war, later a war correspondent. Currently, he free-lances for such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's and Canada's top slick, Maclean's. On the side, he turns out a thrice-weekly column for the Montreal Herald...
...plays (of which only two have been flops). His triumphant Dancing Years is still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep the Home Fires Burning...
Neither Danny Bell nor Henry Morgenthau answered. But, over the years, the question seemed to bother Morgenthau a good deal. Last week, in Collier's, he began giving at least a partial answer...