Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald M. Nelson, 56, Presidential assistant and ex-WPBoss just divorced after 18 years of marriage, did not deny his rumored engagement to his onetime secretary: curvesome, dimpled, brunette Marguerite Coulbourn, 26, Georgetown University's 1939 "Queen of the Campus...
Hopkins' daily routine is similarly, and deceptively, simple. He gets to the office at 9:30 a.m., goes back to his Georgetown home for lunch, takes an hour's nap, and is back in the office by 3, remaining until 5:30. Sometimes, but not very often, he takes a sheaf of papers home at night. He has only one fixed appointment a week: the Wednesday morning meeting of the Munitions Assignments Board. But even though he is chairman, he often skips that. He usually sees the President daily, although there are days when they merely talk by telephone...
...Hopkins met Mrs. Louise Gill Macy, Manhattan divorcee and onetime Paris fashion expert for Harper's Bazaar. They were married in the White House and lived there for a year before moving to their home in Georgetown. Mrs. Macy was well known in Manhattan cafe society, and some of Harry's old friends of WPA days began mumbling that Harry was deserting them in favor of glitter and wealth. But long before he met his present wife, Hopkins had had many friends among the rich?the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly...
...Warrior. The present phase of Harry Hopkins' career began one day in May 1940, when he was sick abed at his home in Georgetown. He was a lonely man. He was still Secretary of Commerce, but he was not working at the job. To visitors he explained that he was through with Washington, that he would probably edit a magazine. Then there was a call from the White House inviting him to dinner. He rose from his sick bed, went to dinner, was asked to spend the night. He did not leave the White House for three and a half...
Married. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 41, Detroit-born millionaire-owner of the Boston Red Sox; and Jean Hiller, 34, onetime Saks Fifth Avenue model; six weeks after he was divorced by Elise Sparrow Yawkey, ex-cover girl; both for the second time; in Georgetown...