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...sizzling letter of correction to the New York Daily News's Washington Correspondent John O'Donnell. He was sore at O'Donnell's waspish cracks at OWI's proposed budget and his ribbing Archibald MacLeish about an OWI dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel (TIME, Oct. 5). "You're nuts, John," wrote Paul. "Mr. MacLeish had nothing to do with the dinner check. It's nobody's damned business. I paid it. The dinner was $7.50 a plate-not $6 as reported. The total was $369.55." Last week O'Donnell...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
...Ambassador Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catholic scholar from Columbia University, stayed on the job and had an interview with Serrano during the time the Nazis broadcast, inaccurately, that he had flown to Gibraltar. Hayes's able diplomacy and Rooseveltian chatter about U.S. post-war tourist plans were seen by some as forerunners of a more friendly attitude from Franco. But Franco has remained neutral for other sound reasons: 1) An open break with the Allies would ruin Falange propaganda and espionage work in the Western Hemisphere; 2) Spain would become a potential invasion point for the Allies; 3) Franco...
...spotted Bernie Baruch's tall, white-topped frame, his long, crossed legs revealing the inevitable high black shoes. The conference came to a reluctant end. Presidents Conant and Compton put on their coats. Tall Bernie Baruch walked, in his deliberate, soldierly stride, back to his suite at the Carlton Hotel...
...first big-time contest between American and Australian baseballers was a game played at the Carlton Cricket Club in Melbourne last week as part of July 4th exhibition...