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...last April, the 70 members of the Mrs. Roosevelt's Press Conference Association (founded in 1941) have faced technological unemployment. Bess Truman simply wasn't giving them anything to write about. Last week the President of the M.R.P.C.A., who is the New York Daily News's bland, blue-eyed Ruth Shick Montgomery, served notice on the new First Lady that she had better change her attitude-or else...
Patrick Henry's home, "Red Hill" in Virginia, was taken over by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation for $60,000, in a settlement of the estate of the patriot's great-granddaughter, Mrs. Matthew Bland Harrison...
...scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent his regrets: recently he had fallen asleep during an investiture at Government House and did not feel up to a conference on a warship...
...Special Devices Division (which was incorporated this month into the Navy's new Office of Research and Inventions). To help solve the Navy's training problems, de Florez gave up a lucrative (about $100,000 a year) practice as consulting engineer to several oil companies. A bland, exuberant genius, he has invented scores of big and little gadgets (including an electric flytrap at the age of eleven). He originated most of the 1,475 projects completed by his office to date, was rewarded with the Legion of Merit last month...
Charles Coburn outshines Dahling Tallulah in his role of chancellor. The bland innocence with which he asks visiting admirals about the progress of their plots towards his own assassination overshadows even the Bankhead rendition of rather monotonous dialogue...