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...chief of OFF, Franklin Roosevelt picked his friend Poet Archibald MacLeish,* Librarian of Congress, who occasionally helps draft a White House speech. To help him ferret out his facts & figures, Director MacLeish will have blond, chub-cheeked Captain Robert Kintner, who gave up a lucrative Washington column (with Joseph Alsop, just resigned from the Navy) to take an Army commission, and rich, personable Lieut. Barry Bingham (son of the late Ambassador to Britain Robert Worth Bingham), who gave up his job as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a commission in the Navy...
...cannot afford the luxury of a quarrel while fighting with Hitler," said blond, blue-eyed Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress (5,000,000 members). Yet last week found Cabinet, Press and Labor wrangling over Britain's toughest labor problem since the war's outbreak: Shall the Government continue to conscript skilled war-industry workers for the armed forces? Sir Walter Citrine said...
East. Fordham is the East's outstanding team. Last year the Rams pushed their way into the Cotton Bowl (where they lost to Texas A. & M. 12-to-13). This year boasting a Panzer division of backs-Noble, Blumenstock, Filipowicz, Pieculewicz, Andrejco, Cheverko, Ososki and big, blond Benny Babula-Fordham hopes to smash its way into the Rose Bowl, goal of every bowl-minded U.S. college. Last week, in the No. 1 intersectional game of the week, Fordham completed the first stage of its campaign with a 16-to-10 victory over Southern Methodist. Future Fordham opponents: North Carolina...
King George ordered 20 tons of Buckingham Palace's railings and gates removed for conversion into armaments; promoted the Duke of Gloucester twice in one day, from air vice marshal to air marshal, from major general to lieutenant general. Belgium's King Leopold III, blond when he became a virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school...
...over the ears that fetched applause from newshens. The Duke, wrote the male press, looked 20 years younger than his 47. The Duchess, while not photogenic, wrote the feminine press, was much more attractive than her 45. The scurrying, roaring crowds saw little but a flash of a bareheaded, blond little man in a grey suit getting in & out of cars, saw only the waved hand of Wallis Windsor of Baltimore, who almost became Queen of England...