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Until last week a robber-baron-conscious faction in the State Department had persistently acted as if any cooperation with industry smacked of treason. And U.S. international oil companies have similarly regarded any Government interference in their policies as an affront-at least until they got into trouble abroad. Now there is at least basis for hope that the two can work together...
Died. John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...
After three flops, Sturges went to Hollywood. For eight years he pestered producers to let him direct his own pictures; finally, after he had written 13 screen plays, Paramount's William Le Baron gave him his chance with The Great McGinty. This was the surprise hit of 1940. Some Hollywoodians even accepted Sturges' startling theory-that one man with a good head is better than any hundred men bumping heads...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
Married. Edith Louise Sylvia Fairbanks, 36, former Lady Ashley and widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; and Edward John, 36, sixth Baron Stanley of Alderley, Lieut. Commander of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; in Boston. It was her third marriage, his second...