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Betty Grable James and Harry Haag James showed to press photographers for the first time their six-week-old, double pin-uppable Victoria Elizabeth ("Vicky") James...
Before donating, each person is given a simple physical examination and after giving blood, light refreshments are served. The process takes only three-quarters of an hour. Students contributing are given a Red Cross Blood Donor pin...
...until 6:30 p.m. did he receive the press. Quickly he scuttled reporters' hopes of smoking him out. Before newsmen had even settled in the neat rows of chairs in the pin-neat office, he said: "There will be no comment on any political questions." Veteran reporters had never seen the Governor in better health or spirits: he was virtually bursting through his neat double-breasted suit...
Raising Morale. In recognition of this fact, General McNair went to Fort Bragg, N.C., to pin on the bosom of Technical Sergeant Walter L. Bull, 26, onetime Baltimore steel worker, the first "Expert Infantryman" badge. Such badges will be awarded to foot soldiers who qualify in twelve departments (such as scouting and patrolling, field sanitation, physical fitness, weapons proficiency, courses under fire 30 inches overhead). "Combat Infantryman" badges will be awarded for proficiency in battle...
Virginia-born Lady Astor sometimes enlivens London dinner parties with semi-serious tirades against American pin-up girls: "Bare legs! It's disgusting! Our Army ought to be ashamed of itself!"* Last week a batch of grubby British "art" magazines set her off in public. Armed with a stack of them, she rose in the House of Commons and touched off one of those exchanges which a British wit has called "Asterisks...