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King George VI added color and dash to a tree-planting ceremony at Windsor by appearing in a new Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...
...basic communications, with an additional month of specialized communications for some men, the class will bear the uninspiring but informative serial number 445, the condensed date of its arrival. "445" will be made up of men ranking from ensign to lieutenant commander. The class will have a varied background since its complement will have come from sea duty, indoctrination school, and midshipmen's school. Yard dorms will, as before, provide quarters for the class...
...veteran foreign correspondent who started covering World War II almost from its beginning, during the Blitz in London. At home and abroad he worked 20 years for U.S. papers-gathered and wrote just about every kind of news "because I wanted to make myself an all around newsman." That background should stand him in good stead in Russia, where he will have to report not just diplomacy and war but the growth of a whole, new civilization...
...main chance, spent most of the week getting ready for the United Nations conference in San Francisco. The conference was still six weeks away, but there was no doubt that the President had pushed other matters with the notable exception of food for Europe (see above) -into the background, was bending every effort to make the conference a success...
...carrying a slingshot, was packing them in last week in Montreal. He is known to all of French-speaking Canada as "Fridolin," whose annual revues, begun in 1938, have become the joy of French-speaking Montreal and Quebec. His real name-Gratien Gélinas-has faded into the background, as has the fact that he was once the most popular artist on the Canadian, radio. This season's Fridolinons, now running in Montreal, looks like the most successful ever...