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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...
When the Counihans moved to Washington, where Bud worked for Hearst and the sisters had to finish their education at a public high school, Anita was profoundly humiliated by her family's reduced circumstances. One of the most important evenings of her life was the one, at a Georgetown prom, when she saw the reigning model of the day make a conquest of the floor. She decided immediately, she remembers, that if that was how it was done, she would do it. That decision led her swiftly onward & upward to New York and a job as a Powers model...
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...
Harry Hopkins, to the surprise of no one, emerged once again as a potent White House adviser. Safely hidden away in his remodeled Georgetown house, he was beyond the reach of captious Congressmen. Close observers spotted the Hopkins hand in the appointment of Secretary of State Stettinius and his new assistants (see FOREIGN RELATIONS). Again, the Hopkins trademark appeared on the brief campaign which boomed OPAdministrator Chester Bowles for Commerce. Now, for any new shifts in the offing, Washington kept its eye on the house in Georgetown, where the unofficial Assistant President of the U.S. still spun his webs...
...those who still agree with Boston's 1850 medical men, there are still four all-male medical strongholds: Georgetown, St. Louis, Dartmouth, Jefferson...