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...democracies. Last week a "Fight for Freedom" Committee was organized in Manhattan with 250 sponsors. Its members "accept the fact that we are at war," pledged to "do whatever is necessary to insure Hitler's defeat." Honorary chairman: Carter Glass. Typical backers: Colonel William Donovan, Authors Rupert Hughes, Edna Ferber, Publisher John Farrar, Editor Herbert Agar, Historian Walter Millis. But there was better evidence of the state of U.S. opinion...
...slight, is an affable, easygoing gentleman who twirls his mustache and pops his eyes at the sight of an attractive ankle. Last week he was sad. His U.S. wife, Signora Leonora Sutton Evans Lais, daughter of a New York City doctor, and his 19-year-old daughter, Edna, had decided to remain in the U.S. Admiral Lais packed. The U.S. had once more rebuffed the Axis...
...traditional love for France, more sentimental than rational. It is based largely on Lafayette and legend. When the French Government of Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice most of these U. S. citizens felt that their sentimental faith had been misplaced. They reacted much as did Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay in a sonnet entitled The Old Men of Vichy, which ended...
Philad's demand made beauty operators' hair stand right on end. A court test promptly was sought by the National Hairdressers' & Cosmetologists' Association (14,000 members), headed by able St. Louis Businesswoman Edna L. Emme. Miss Emme's claims: the croquignole process had been used in the U. S. before the Mayer patent; the patent was issued improperly; by purchasing machines from licensed manufacturers, the operators had bought the right to use the process anyway. At week's end, Judge Biggs took the case under advisement, started combing out the kinks...
...children take World War II-and how parents should take war-excited children-is the subject of a study by Edna Dean Baker, president of the National College of Education (teacher-training) at Evanston, Ill. Findings...