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Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, one of the last members of Hawaiian royalty, offered her sprawling villa near Honolulu to the U.S.O. as a rest home and recreation center. Hawaii's Republican National Committeewoman for 12 years, she is the mother of ex-playboy Prince David, given a ten-year manslaughter sentence in 1937 for cutting his half-caste sweetheart to death...
...Commentator's wives talked too much about New York; their husbands too much about isolationism. Townsfolk simplified it by calling them snobs. By summer "The Strangers" found more congenial company in such homes as the 40-room mansion of Socialite Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank, ex-Democratic Committeewoman and No. i female America-Firster; the summer castles of the Mortons (salt), the Cranes (plumbing); the $1,000,000 Indian temple transported by the Maytags (washing machines) from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 to Lake Geneva...
...nothing sensational about these actions. This was typical: Henry Wallace, a pleasant-appearing, embarrassed man with an honest eye and a slight touch of hay fever, drove into the farming community of St. Peter, Minn, to campaign as the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. A Democratic National Committeewoman lives in St. Peter; nevertheless something had gone wrong. St. Peter citizens did not know the candidate was in town, did not even know that he was coming...
...Sidney Skolsky spotted Jimmy Roosevelt spreading charm around a Hollywood party unconscious of a Willkie button slyly pinned to the back of his coat. Walter O'Keefe, a New York comedian, arrived in town to organize a Republican committee with bright-eyed Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival from Washington of prying Leo Rosten (alias Leonard Q. Ross), essayist and humorist, who was recently appointed "special...
Miss O'Leary, daughter of an East Side garageman, got interested in politics when her brother John founded a small Democratic club in their district. She even ran for State Committeewoman, and after hours from her secretarial job made a housewife-to-housewife campaign...