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...full of "firsts." It was the first time a Prime Minister of Britain had ever addressed the Trades Union Congress. When bulky Foreign Secretary "Ernie" Bevin, absent for the first time in 30 years (because he was attending the Council of Foreign Ministers in London), sent immaculate, briefcased Ivone Kirkpatrick to "observe" for him, it was the first time the Foreign Office had ever set such an official seal on the T.U.C. And the 900 delegates (representing some 7,000,000 workers) packed into Blackpool's ornate Winter Gardens had their own prideful "first": never before had the workers...
...General Eisenhower as chief of the American section (with Field Marshal Harold R. L. G. Alexander as his probable opposite number for Britain) ; Major General Lucius Clay as his deputy and administrative chief of staff; the State Department's Robert Murphy as political adviser (with sharp-eyed Ivone Kirkpatrick his counterpart for Britain, and purge-trial prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky for the Russians); and Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow as commander of the U.S. Fifteenth (occupation) Army. While these top four will probably stay in Berlin, American administrative headquarters will be located within the U.S. zone, probably at Frankfurt...
...lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick: "If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool . . . the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear...
...lineup: HARVARD TUFTS Geeson, l.e. r.e., McClain Thurman, l.t. r.t., Kirkpatrick Mroz, l.g. r.g., McGabe Brown, c. c., Rautenberg Davis, r.g. l.g., Graham Pierce, r.t. l.t., Owens Perkins, r.e. l.e., Rohrs Trumbull, q.b. q.b., Winans Navin, l.h.b. r.h.b., Kearns Jenkins, r.h.b. l.h.b., Feldman Garrity, f.b. f.b., Irwin
...most heartwarming homecoming of the week was reported by Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News, which also cheered homesick U.S. tourists and expatriates before the war with a Paris edition in English. Of her discoveries at 21 rue de la Paix, she wrote...