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John L. Lewis' daughter and secretary, plump Kathryn Lewis, who seldom appears in public, took a long lunch hour off from her job, spent it marching in a picketline before a cafeteria in Washington's National Press Building...
...Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! was the tune for the bands one morning last week when John L. Lewis walked into a hall at Columbus, Ohio. On the platform he paused for a word with his daughter, Kathryn, large and placid in a black dress. He mouthed his after-breakfast cigar, chatted, paced up & down until an introductory orator droned: "I give you . . ." Only then did the finest actor in U. S. Labor turn to the crowd. Grey hairs laced his black mane. His squat body was taut and still. One hand brushed at his eyes, at the arching black eyebrows...
Thirteen years ago Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an uninhibited 16-year-old lummox of a girl singing and doing the Charleston in Washington, D. C. amateur shows. Broadway Showman Eddie Dowling brought her to Manhattan as "Tiny Little" in Honeymoon Lane. During more than four years of Broadway (Hit the Deck, Flying High), the comics of the show business treated her to so many cruel fat-lady gags that finally, bitter and hurt, she packed and went home...
Back to Manhattan from the Pan-American Conference at Lima (TIME, Nov. 21, et seq.), where she was a U. S. delegate, went plump, soft-voiced Florence Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...
...board as soon as the Santa Clara pushed out of Panama. Lanky, ascetic Father John F. O'Hara, President of Notre Dame University and chairman of the delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven hours at a stretch...