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...newsmen trooped into Ed Stettinius' office to test the new businesslike effectiveness. Stettinius was cordial, as always. He was also mum as a clam. The correspondents probed and pounced, trying one approach after another, but to no avail. The New Dealing New York Post's William O. Player asked: "Does the U.S. attitude depend on Churchill?" Replied Ed Stettinius: "No comment." To all questions, he returned the same answer. Finally, the Chicago Sun's exasperated Tom Reynolds remarked tartly: "It seems to be possible to be more frank in London." Once again, Stettinius purred an amiable...
Something ought to be done about: 1) The absolute lack of social-life amongst the 171 of us. Some kind of a dance or clam-bake or lynching party should be organized. With men like Jock Brunner and Bill James straining at the leash only the inspiration is needed. Don Brown suggests that a formal dance would go well the weekend after Labor Day. I guess, maybe, he's right. 2) The singing and marching on the way to chow. The morale which made us almost conspicuous during our Midshipmen term has just about disintegrated. Perhaps the new songs which...
Modern Mr. Pepys. For clam-like Mackenzie King, the trip had been both a success and an exciting adventure. At the palatial Dorchester Hotel, his London day began at 9, when he personally answered his personal mail, ended at 11, when he made his daily entry in the personal diary he has kept faithfully for 25 years. He had much to record. There had been two luncheons at Buckingham Palace: a formal affair during which he sat near Princess Elizabeth, and a private meal with the King & Queen. He spent a weekend with Churchill at Chequers, talked personally with soldiers...
...peacetime New York Yankee centerfielder; by onetime cinema bit Player Dorothy Arnold Olson, 26; after four and a half years of marriage, two return trips to Reno; in Los Angeles. Mrs. Di Maggio testified that Jolting Joe was both a stay-out (with men friends) and a clam at home: "He never acted like a married man." She got custody of their two-year...
Last week the "diabolical" colonel's son, Charles du Paty de Clam, became Vichy's new Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs. His job is to apply Nazi racial theories, to degrade and pauperize all French Jews...