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Cool Attitude. "The President," wrote Ickes, "said that Woodring had refused to resign [F.D.R. had offered to make him minister to Canada] . . . Then the President told me the astonishing bit of news that Woodring wanted to go as ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
...economy seemed to warrant the rise. Overall profits were well up from last year's record peak. U.S. industrial production, which had slipped a bit during the spring, was climbing again. Backlogs of orders were building up in some industries faster than production could consume them. And U.S. employment, now soaring above 58,000,000, was expected to be greater than ever by midsummer...
Besides naming Godin, Samborski revised his batting order a bit yesterday. Captain John Coppinger has been moved up to the sixth position because of a steadily climbing batting average, while John Caulfield will hit second...
Wall Street's baby bull market grew a bit more last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average moved up 1.06 points to 191.06, the highest in 19 months. By week's end the market had slipped back a bit, to 190.74. But there was no hesitation in the rest of the economy...