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Divorced. Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, errant great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; by Lenore Lemmon, 22, Manhattan cafe character; after ten days of marriage, 4½ years of separation, no children; in West Palm Beach...
...ship of state and send it sliding into the treacherous sea of independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...
...leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...
...TIME'S errant, red-faced, citified Science editor and researchers have discovered...
...White House press conference Franklin Roosevelt denied having used the exact cuss word TIME reported, said that his words to the head election official had been, "Tom, the damn thing won't work," advised the White House Correspondents' Association to defray the expense of sending the errant reporter to an ear specialist. TIME will gladly undertake that expense-as well as the cost of examining the ears of the five other reporters and photographers who heard the same thing...