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Undampened Stet. The storm left Stettinius undampened, unruffled, appar-ently well pleased with himself. When British Ambassador Lord Halifax paid a hurried call, the new Secretary put on a rare show. Popping like a jack-in-the-box from room to room, he carried on three conferences in three rooms at once. After 29 minutes of conversation snatched between pops, Lord Halifax emerged, his usually somber face wreathed in a wide grin. To newsmen who cornered him in a dim-lit State Department hall, he purred his diplomatic best: "I don't think we need to be unduly excited...
...Earl of Halifax, Britain's gaunt, impenetrably gentlemanly Ambassador to the U.S., deftly parried a U.S. housewives' rumor that Britain has used Lend-Lease lipstick to prettify English girls for lonely G.I.s. Said Halifax: "Lipstick [is] the easiest and quickest way to mark on a war casualty's clothes what and where his wounds...
...done what no other man had done: navigated the legendary Northwest Passage from west to east and back again. Last week Staff Sergeant Larsen piloted the weather-beaten 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship, St. Roch, into Vancouver Harbor. She was just 86 days out of Halifax, had sailed on a 7,500-mile trip around the top of North America...
...June 1940, Larsen set out from Vancouver on his west-east passage. It took him 28 months (TIME, Oct. 26, 1942). When he started back for Vancouver from Halifax last July, he had two veterans of his first cruise in his hand-picked crew of ten. They were provisioned for three years. Larsen and his men sailed in part by old admiralty charts prepared by the 19th-Century explorers, in part on their own, as when they crossed Viscount Melville Sound, never traversed before by any white...
...Earl of Halifax, accepting membership in the Hobo Fellowship of America, told Manhattan's Hobo News that "the life of a hobo . . . develops . . . self-reliance, initiative and a certain tolerance of other people's views. If a hobo is ... someone who roves about and lives away from home, certainly I'm a hobo...