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...nice to be back in Washington. After six years of wartime exile, 5,500 Daughters of the American Revolution descended on Constitution Hall for their 56th annual convention, filled up the hotels, overflowed into most of the department stores, antique shops and restaurants, eddied discreetly into cocktail lounges. Then they settled down to the strenuous business of recording their views on national affairs and electing a new president. First came the resolutions. The ladies were against: world government (though "earnestly in support" of world organization), Communism, immigration, federal aid to education (as an invasion of states' rights) and radio...
Readers may well feel that what's sauce for Bertram is sauce for P. G. Joy in the Morning is not only Author Wodehouse's 56th novel. It is also his first peacetime production since his somewhat woolly activities as a broadcaster from Nazi Germany brought down a hail of criticism on his clownish head...
Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...rnberg, in whose great stadium the Nazi Party used to assemble in vain glory once a year, had been fanatically defended by Volksstürmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...
...Henry Ford celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. It was also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther...