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Direct Action. In Georgetown, Ga., bootleggers were accused of burning down their competition: the town's two liquor stores...
Last week two of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted personal friends departed. Ailing Harry Hopkins, perhaps the closest political friend Roosevelt ever had, the man who lived in the White House for three and a half years, took up his pen in his neat Georgetown home and wrote: "The time has come when I must take a rest...
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 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...