Milestones, Nov. 3, 1958

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Married. Amy Ann Morse, 22, daughter of Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse; and John Matthew Bilich, 23, fledgling public-relations man with Pittsburgh's National Supply Co.; in Washington, D.C.

Married. Mary Fickett, 30, Broadway actress (Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello, a replacement for Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy); and Actor James Congdon, 29; in Manhattan.

Died. Paul Beisman, 60, longtime manager of St. Louis' American Theater (36 years) and outdoor Municipal Opera (28 years), former president of the Legitimate Independent Theaters of North America; of cancer; in St. Louis. Beisman ran the huge, concrete "Muny" Opera like a ballpark, became an expert on what Variety calls the ozoning end of show business. As manager of the American Theater, Beisman was widely recognized for keeping non-Broadway U.S. theater alive.

Died. Sid Simpson, 64, Republican Congressman from Illinois, who was running for re-election this year; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield, Ill.

Died. Theophilus Albert Marryshow, 71, a principal figure in the establishment of The West Indies confederation, Senator in the first West Indian legislature, Grenada-born journalist who in 1915 founded the West Indian; following a stroke; in St. George's, Grenada, W.I.

Died. Henri Béraud, 73, French writer, toxic reactionary, anti-democrat, antiMason, anti-Semite, Anglophobe, 1922 winner of the Prix Goncourt for The Martyrdom of the Obese, a novel; on the island of Ile de Ré, France. Author of a 1935 essay entitled Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French—as well as the Nazis —during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed, Béraud was sentenced to death. General de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. In poor health, Béraud was released after five years.

Died. Edward Cardinal Mooney, 76, Archbishop of Detroit; of a heart attack; in Rome (see RELIGION).

Died. George Edward Moore, 84, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, author (Philosophical Studies, Principia Ethica), whose neorealistic philosophy influenced Bertrand Russell; in Cambridge. One historian of philosophy called him the "greatest, acutest, and most skillful questioner of modern philosophy."