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...brother, Wendell, chic, blue-eyed Mrs. Paul Pihl (nee Willkie), whose husband has been Assistant U. S. Naval Attache in Berlin the last three years, arrived from Lisbon with Freckles, her red cocker, still snug under her arm, had her picture taken with Mrs. Wendell Willkie, who went to greet her at Jersey City...
...time two people visited him on the pretext of wanting to practice their German. They came armed with a bottle of Scotch, and, after they thought he had been "softened up," they peppered him with Nazi propaganda. On another occasion a stranger invited Shallenberger to come with him to greet a boatload of Germans who were entering the country illegally--an invitation which he refused...
Never before had a British King gone forth to welcome a foreign diplomat, but there was precedent for his action. A few weeks ago Franklin Roosevelt went down the Potomac to greet the King's new Ambassador, Lord Halifax. Obviously the bonds of common purpose were stronger than protocol...
Still, the 12,000 New Yorkers who turned out to greet Torger Tokle last week had a hunch that he would make quite a yump. Lined up around the course like a gigantic keyhole, they watched his familiar blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went...
...Aide Daniel Callaghan, eight Secret Service men. As there was no precedent for Lord Halifax's stepping down from the Foreign Office to become Ambassador to the U. S., so there was no precedent for President Roosevelt's answering gesture of friendship in thus going out to greet an Ambassador, showing him honor generally reserved for the head of a State...