Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emily Harm's boyish-looking Major Charles Boxer, 41, finally arrived in Manhattan from Hong Kong, ran from a plane into her arms, posed with her and their four-year-old daughter, Carola. As the Major got news from Britain that his wife, Ursula, had finally divorced him (Miss Hahn considered herself divorced from her onetime Chinese companion, Sin-may), the well-publicized couple planned to make it legal this week...
Major Charles Boxer, freed from a Jap prison camp and from his ex-wife in England, sailed for the U.S. and Author Emily Hahn, who told the world in her autobiography (China to Me) that Boxer was the father of her four-year-old daughter. Said he, before leaving Hong Kong: "It would be much better if we were married . . . more convenient when staying at hotels." Said she, in Manhattan: "I think we'll try for one more...
...morning in 1944 he walked with his brisk, wide-apart boxer's step into the big Navy building on Constitution Avenue and sat down in a new office on the second deck. He buzzed for a secretary, dictated letters for an hour, held several conferences, lunched with Ernie King; at 1:25 he left to attend the funeral of Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Since that day, when he unsmilingly took over one of the biggest jobs in Washington, he has occupied the Secretary's office, which his wife endowed with ship's lamps, ship's bells...
President Truman last week appointed as his personal physician an Army doctor who has never treated him, but who happens to be from Missouri too. Tall, handsome Colonel Wallace H. Graham, 34, who went to the University of Missouri, where he was a boxer and track star, got his medical degree at Creighton University in Omaha, and studied surgery at Harvard, Chicago, Budapest, Szeged (Hungary) and Vienna. He went into practice in Kansas City with his father, Dr. J. W. Graham, who is a friend of Harry Truman's. On the side, young Dr. Graham continued surgical research...
Emily Hahn, best-selling author (Seductio ad Absurdum, The Soong Sisters), got news in Manhattan about her English friend Major Charles Boxer, whom she described in China to Me as the father of her four-year-old daughter Carola. The ex-Chief of British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong had been found alive and well in a Jap prison camp, said the London Evening News. Said Miss Hahn: "He'll come home and marry me, of course...