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...Races," wrote Queen Victoria to her gadabout son Edward, "have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men." In her reign the royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went...
Died. Julia Elizabeth Westfall Wolfe, 85, mother of the late, prodigious Novelist Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel ; Of Time and the River) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan, after a gadabout week as Tom's literary executor (one morning she stayed up till three autographing books - TIME, Dec. 10). Driving, dominating, possessive, she was the home to ward which her angel looked. Said he: "All the critics in the world may say it's good but a man's own mother will know...
...bureau. Gallagher has been acting Paris bureau chief ever since Edward J. Kennedy was disaccredited by the Army for his V-E scoop. Under Gallagher in Berlin will be three Pulitzer Prize winners: Louis Lochner, prewar head of A.P.'s Berlin bureau; Daniel de Luce, wartime Balkans expert; gadabout Laurence ("Larry") Allen, who learned about Germans in Axis prison camps...
...tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University's owlish, gadabout Carl Ackerman, the Atlanta Constitution's nervous, nimble Editor Ralph McGill. Outstanding findings...
Rested and refreshed, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King returned to Ottawa. His journey into the U.S. had been no gadabout vacation. In 1,770 miles and seven days, the Prime Minister had done...