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North Carolina's husky, handsome, 54-year-old Congressman Thurmond Chatham is a man who likes people, parties, a well-bottomed drink-and doing what he pleases. He surprised his Yale classmates by passing up officer training courses, enlisting as a seaman in the Navy in World War I. He startled fellow businessmen by expanding instead of contracting the family business (Chatham blankets) during the Depression, a gamble which eventually made him a millionaire. During World War II he wangled a demotion-from commander to lieutenant commander-to get into combat on a cruiser in the Southwest Pacific...
Glad Shouts. Last week in Germany, Congressman Chatham fell into an adventure which left even his oldest acquaintances breathing a little heavily. One night, as he was seated with a glass of something warming in a West Berlin nightclub, he was spotted by a Russian whom he had known in Washington during World War II. The two men greeted each other with glad shouts, talked for hours, finally went to the Russian's flat in East Berlin. How, asked the Russian, would the Congressman like to go for a drive in the morning? The Congressman would...
...switchboard was swamped with calls from angry ex-marines, their families and friends. At the Hotel Statler, the Marine Corps League happened to be holding a convention. The outraged feelings of the Marine veterans reached a steamy climax in a 20-minute speech delivered by Sheriff William Harris, of Chatham County, Ga., who referred to "that creature in the White House," and blamed as the source of the Marines' troubles the man who had tried to cut Marine strength to the bone -Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, that "incompetent damn fool...
...unique. Columbia University's Russian Center and Stanford's Hoover Memorial Library exchange personnel with Harvard for lectures and conferences. There has also been contact with individuals at Yale and at the Far Eastern Institute of the University of Washington. One foreign group cooperating on the Russian problem is Chatham House (the Institute of International Affairs) in London...
...Admiralty Regrets ..." All day Sam Hine's wife Maud waited at the Chatham Navy Dock gates. "I've been through all this before," she said cheerfully. "In 1942 my husband's submarine was sunk. I waited four months for news. Then a telegram came telling me he was a prisoner...