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Josephine (Now in November) Johnson's first novel since 1937 is a study in passive, helpless anguish. Its subject: the cold fear, the ultimate spiritual paralysis, which lovelessness can create. Its victim: a shy, adopted child named Edith...
...President, confided White House Social Secretary Edith Helm last week, is a methodical, domestic man. His methods...
Even Colonel Robert S. Allen, the onetime Washington columnist who lost an arm in Germany-and the most outspoken critic of present artificial limbs-was mollified last week. Colonel Allen had lunch with six other amputees, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, and Major General Paul R. Hawley of the Veterans' Administration, the man responsible for veterans' artificial limbs. Some time during the two-hour lunch, General Hawley made Allen chairman of a committee of amputees to pass on new prostheses (artificial devices), and told him to pick his own committee...
...White House bulletin board announced that Mrs. Edith Helm, social secretary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Miss Reathal Odum, Mrs. Truman's personal secretary, would meet the ladies of the press. The meeting was not on the second, or family, floor, where Eleanor Roosevelt used to chat with the girls, but in the semi-public Green Room...
Grey, gracious Edith Helm, who was in the White House social secretariat under the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and again under Eleanor Roosevelt, walked in with Miss Odum. Mrs. Helm confessed she was "scared to death." First off, she said that Mrs. Truman would not hold peace time receptions and dinners this winter ("inappropriate at present - these are sad times for many people who have suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution...