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After tea about a hundred 14-to 17-year-old veterans of the London blitz gather around the fireplace in the headmaster's living room of Westminster School, adjoining the ancient Abbey. Under the chairmanship of an OWI girl, they fire questions at a brain trust of two or three young people repatriated after living in the U.S. The brain trust is coached by Author Christopher Morley's smart 24-year-old daughter Louise, now the wife of Cameron Highlander Captain James Cochrane...
...good deal of information. He has visited Europe several times. But he has no clain to expertness in the endless subtleties and complexities of foreign relations. He shows none of the scholarly inclinations in the field of international affairs which have distinguished his great predecessors in the Foreign Relations chairmanship. In knowledge and experience he ranks far closer to William J. ("Gumshoe Bill") Stone, the Missouri lawyer-politician who stubbornly opposed Wilson's war policies as chairman in 1914-18, than to the real statesmen who have held his job. Henry Clay (1834-36) had already served a term...
...seek the answers to such momentous and difficult questions as these, the formation of a commission was announced this week under the chairmanship of President Robert Maynard Hut chins of the University of Chicago. No one could doubt that answers were badly needed...
Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
Through his work in the American Civil Liberties Union and his contribution to The Nation and The New Republic. Dean Garrison has become a household name in liberal circles. His extensive work in labor relations, including his chairmanship of the NLRB with its job of handling the Smith boys, has made him one of the outstanding authorities in the field of labor law, and one of the best-known mediators in the nation...