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...Epiphany dinner given by General Francisco Franco in the Royal Palace in Madrid to the heads of diplomatic missions . . . U.S. Ambassador [Carlton J. H.] Hayes, who has usually got along amicably enough with General Franco, got into a talk with the General that was said to have developed disagreeably. It was reported to have begun when General Franco remarked to the Ambassador that all Free French were Communists. Dr. Hayes was said to have replied that this was an incorrect assumption that could be laid to German propaganda...
...Ambassador Carlton J. Hayes's stiff protest was almost unnecessary. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's government and the Falange party immediately weighed in with profuse apologies. The two consulate demonstrators were expelled from the Falange, brought to Madrid in irons for trial and punishment by a special court...
...Cornelius W. Dresselhuys smart, blonde asbestos heiress (sister of Playboy Tommy Manville), gave a sort of farewell luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless...
Said a Washington gagster: "John Lewis and Harold Ickes signed a contract, and the miners lost their lunch." Cracked Scripps-Howard labor reporter Fred Perkins: "Meanwhile, Mr. Lewis may be found lunching daily in the Carlton Hotel, where it takes 15 minutes to look at the menu...
Black-browed, snow-haired John Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., is not normally a Gloomy Gus. Generally he is too busy making good his promise to build huge wood-veneer bomber-crew trainers-"the biggest damn airplanes out of wood that anyone ever thought of" (TIME, June 1, 1942). But last week, in his official capacity as president of the East Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 50-year-old Carl Ward caught the headlines with some very Gloomy-Gus talk. Said...