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Married. Brian Aherne, 43, flamboyant British-born stage & screen actor, lately ETO-touring in a melodramatized Barretts of Wimpole Street; and Eleanor de Liagre Labrot, 33, socialite sister of Broadway Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.; both for the second time (his first: Joan Fontaine); at Sneden Landing...
Kilian's Hotel. Kilian, LoBuono went on, "said he thought someone higher up was gunning for him," and he meant Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, head of ETO's service forces...
...found readjustment less difficult but still far from easy. The rector of St. Andrew's Memorial Episcopal Church, Yonkers, N.Y., the Rev. Lynde Elliot May III, 40, entered the Navy in November 1942, served as a "flotilla chaplain" during the invasion of Southern France and elsewhere in the ETO, was discharged in November 1945. The experience as a padre he valued and would not have missed, but he was "darned glad to get back" to the tranquillity of his parish and to his own job. Ex-Chaplain May admitted that the humdrum routine of parochial life took some getting...
...hospitalized veterans, things were looking up last week. Rotund, hard-working Major General Paul R. Hawley, onetime Chief Surgeon of the ETO, began work as the Veterans' Administration's medical boss...
...Australia just before MacArthur, came home to write a bestseller, They Call It Pacific, urging more guns and men in the East. This suited Willie Hearst's line: he hired Lee away from A.P. at a fat raise, but then packed him off to Europe. In the ETO, Lee was a fish out of his Pacific waters. He never really paid off for Hearst until he went back to Bataan-and Tokyo...