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Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire (ret.), longtime physician to Franklin Roosevelt, was treated for bruises after he: 1) addressed the American Red Cross convention in San Francisco; 2) fell off the flower-banked speakers' platform...
...just the man with whom Tammany could challenge waspish, ebullient little Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1941. In a sense it was a personal feud. The Little Flower had heckled Democratic...
...receive an honorary doctorate of civil law, the "OUDS" (pronounced OWDS-the Oxford University Dramatic Society) produced a masque in her honor. Oxford had not entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored St. George charged in, precariously perched...
...flower of Red womanhood assembled in Rome last week. Theirs was the semi-annual executive meeting of the Women's International Democratic Federation, a Communist front formed three years ago to the battle cry: "Women of the world, unite!" Beneath two white cardboard doves, 31 ladies representing 52 nations met to compare notes on women's rights. Another chief purpose: to prepare a campaign against warmongers in the U.S., Britain and "the countries which dance to their tune...
Sketchy as the book is, drained of the color that made the Little Flower an endearing and irritating one-man kaleidoscope, it discloses a passion for public service. Some of his famed fractiousness comes through here, and so does his standard of political morality. He was willing to pick up flophouse votes with free coffee and doughnuts, but not willing to accept Hearst's offer to get him nominated for New York Supreme Court judge...