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Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., late Navy flier son of the ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and courage" as a bomber pilot in his last flight over Europe last August...
...White House statement on the changes said that "an important diplomatic post" would soon be found for capable career diplomat Norman Armour, ex-Ambassador to Argentina. With most top European assignments filled, dopesters guessed that Armour's next assignment would be Brazil, Breckinridge Long-so went the guesses-would probably go to Cuba as Ambassador; but gnomelike Adolph Berle will probably return to his New York law practice...
...Marquess of Hartington, 26, eldest son & heir of the tenth Duke of Devonshire, owner of a 20,000-acre estate, husband (for four months) of ex-Ambassador Joseph Kennedy's daughter, Kathleen. He was killed in France a month...
...Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech was to be played off a record. At a rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour crowd ignored the New Deal speakers (ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, ex-Ambassador to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) to gape at a 1944 campaign hat designed by Sally Victor, the topical milliner. The hat, "The Commander in Chief," is a light blue beret with a red-white-&-blue cockade and ribbon, to sell for "about...
None of these shifts ranked in importance with the appointment last week of cool, tough career Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 57, ex-Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when...