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...Corinne Griffith, melting beauty ("The Orchid of the Screen") of silent movies, was ready for a new career as an authoress this week. Her literary work: a ten-year history of the Washington Redskins football team (owner: husband George Preston Marshall...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was having a friendly dinner with visiting American Legionnaires at London's Savoy Hotel last week. As he referred to "this awful economic crisis," Bevin had a sudden thought. Said he to the Legion's former National Commander Paul Griffith: "I know, Commander, that you will forgive me for suggesting the other day at Southport that you should take the gold out of Fort Knox. It does not seem to have been a very popular speech in America." While the diners laughed, Bevin continued: "Well, I do not mind whether...
American Legion's outgoing National Commander Paul Griffith gave the pitch to its convention in Manhattan (see Veterans) in a bristling statement: if the situation in Greece got worse, or if Greece were invaded, the U.S. should send troops. To the Legion, Chief of Staff General Dwight Eisenhower sounded a note of "critical urgency." The U.S., he said, must meet "any real threat [to peace] as it begins unmistakably to develop...
...convention hall's one real moment of excitement followed the spontaneous burst of cheering with which General Dwight D. Eisenhower was hailed. But when Kansas delegates thronged forward in an attempt to set off an Eisenhower-for-President boom, National Commander Paul Griffith waved them back. The ovation ended after only 30 seconds, and with it the theory that the convention would play a major part in presidential politics. (Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, a delegate to the convention, got a thunderous ovation when he spoke in behalf of the "Marshall approach...
Compromise trial schedule: first heat--Daniels, Robinson, Savarit, Stannatos; second heat--Bentz, Chenery, Middendorf, Rothstein; third heat--Bennett, Griffith, Lipham, Preston; fourth heat--McNamara, Murphy, Simmons, Torres...