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Iowa's dapper, young (47), first-term Governor makes a political asset of his fascinating name: Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper. Against the better judgment of his advisers, Governor Hickenlooper campaigned in 1938 by telling a joke on himself. A drugstore clerk refused to charge 10? worth of asafetida to the Hickenlooper account. "Take it for nothing," said the clerk, "I wouldn't write both asafetida and Hickenlooper for a dime...
Massachusetts' slick, handsome Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. failed to answer roll call in the Senate one day last week. Colleagues soon learned why. The reading clerk droned out a letter from the Senator: he was resigning to go back into the Army. Reporters hotfooted it around to the Senator's office, learned from a secretary that Lodge was already in his major's uniform, already off somewhere on duty...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...
...holder of the second oldest baronetcy in England (created in 1611), married in Lancashire his dark, rosy-cheeked secretary, Philomena Simmons, 19, who had come to help him with his mail after his first wife died in October. The bride was given away by her brother, a coal company clerk. Said stout Sir Cuthbert: "I have always been proud that I am a true Tory democrat...
Then he got his first break: assignment as communications clerk in one of four Liberator squadrons in Brigadier General Ted Timberlake's group, now famed as "Ted's Flying Circus" (TIME, Oct. 18). Ben kept his fingers crossed, never even went to nearby Shreveport for fear of getting into trouble. Twice when the squad ron moved (to Florida, then England) they talked of leaving him behind. Both times he begged to go, made...