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Divorced. Lieut. Commander Herbert S. S. Agar, 47, 1934 Pulitzer Prize historian (The People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach...
Shirley Temple, nearly 17, officially began the romantic phase of a cinema career which has been minutely publicized since childhood. Her announcement of her engagement to blond, 6 ft. 2 in. A.A.F. Sergeant John George Agar, 24, was closely followed by a parenthetical announcement from her parents: "Shirley and John have promised . . . not... to get married for two years, possibly three...
...Historian-Journalist Herbert Agar (former president of New York's Freedom House) got the loudest applause. Said he: "When we have beaten back the tyrannies . . . there will be many temptations to suspend our allegiance to Areopagitica at least so far as the enemy is concerned.... Let us forbid them the use of arms. Let us make such disposal of their persons and property as we and our Allies think appropriate. But let us not try to tell them what they may read or even what they may print. ... It will be irksome if the Germans rush into print...
...will. Major Ralph Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of Marshall Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
...William Agar, vice president of Freedom House; Justice Ferdinand Pecora; President George N. Shuster, of Hunter College; President Harry D, Gideonse of Brooklyn College; Raymond Leslie Buell, former president of the Foreign Policy Association; Major George Fielding Eliot, John W. Vandercook and Sydney Moseley, commentators; Harry Scherman, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club; former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney; the Rev. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor...