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Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...
...equally high plane is the rest of General Lee's executive background. His public-relations officer, Colonel "Jock" Lawrence, used to be Samuel Goldwyn's pressagent. In England General Lee travels in a large black limousine with red leather cushions. Before the invasion he often went on inspection trips in a private train -actually assigned to General Eisenhower, who had little use for it-which had two cars for automobiles, two for staff, dining and conference rooms and various utility cars...
Colonel John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 40, who became the Nazis' richest U.S. prisoner when he was captured in southern France a month ago, escaped from a prison train, made his way back to U.S. lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train...
Something ought to be done about: 1) The absolute lack of social-life amongst the 171 of us. Some kind of a dance or clam-bake or lynching party should be organized. With men like Jock Brunner and Bill James straining at the leash only the inspiration is needed. Don Brown suggests that a formal dance would go well the weekend after Labor Day. I guess, maybe, he's right. 2) The singing and marching on the way to chow. The morale which made us almost conspicuous during our Midshipmen term has just about disintegrated. Perhaps the new songs which...
...year book pictures are all in the hands of their owners, but it seems that several strayed a bit before arriving. At any rate, after seeing pictures of Jock Brunner, Bras Pryor, and Norm Brown, the Germans have voted our class "the group by whom we would most like to be invaded...