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Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...
...Mayor Riley is probably typical enough. He used to sell tires, found politics more fun, was elected mayor in 1940. He wears sailor straws ("boaters" in Britain), flashy double-breasted suits, a red-rosebud and an American Legion pin in his lapel. He likes clambakes, gag pictures and calling people by their first names. As mayor he is noisy, hard-working and efficient, should be a gaudy contrast to the traditional English mayor who should be efficient, hard-working but definitely not noisy...
Terry Allen did neither. He made merry at Fort Bliss, Fort Riley, Fort Mclntosh. He endured two years at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School, an all but indispensable preliminary to senior rank. In his class of 241 members, he finished 221st. General (then Major) Eisenhower finished first...
Which is almost as strange as Jim Riley's fondness for the name Riley to such an extent that not only does he have a wife by the same surname (naturally), but a date with a Miss Riley Saturday night . . . that's all right, Jim, we know you like the name...
Looking ahead a few days, to those who were formerly "gainfully employed" among us, there is an income tax payment coming up on June 15th... the Midshipman Athletic program planned for us will shortly be roaring along... we're betting currently that (1) Jim Riley (as usual) will cuss up and down C entry next Monday when his wife (as usual) does not write to him over the weekend, and (2) we're equally certain that you will be able to find E. G. Davis any night at 2000 this week at the center table at the student club telling...