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...collar of London's Laborite Daily Herald: ''Lord Beaverbrook . . . believes in the empire. He's sincere on the subject to the point of incoherence. The only trouble is that the empire doesn't believe in Lord Beaverbrook. . . . He's the old maid of politics...
This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present...
...Yorker hurriedly unloaded the last of its anecdotes on the maid shortage. Soon A-card holders would get more gasoline; by the end of the year there would even be a few new cars. The battle for Okinawa, begun three weeks before the final collapse of the Ruhr pocket, flared hotter than ever...
...Truman did the housework in her sunny, five-room apartment, as she had done it back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing a little over the dearth of beefsteak, her husband's favorite dish. She does not smoke; her husband does not approve of women with cigarets...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...