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...Reader Buffum fash himself no more; wherever it came from (authorities disagree),"doughboy" has no money taint. According to H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...Secretary was tired. Presumably, she had sent in her resignation many weeks ago; it had been gathering dust on Franklin Roosevelt's desk. For her successor the President was looking for somebody who probably does not exist: a man who will meet the specifications of both A.F. of L. and C.I.O., and get by Congress to boot...
...prospects included: trim, smart Anna Rosenberg, labor relations expert for WMC, who would replace Frances Perkins' unfashionable hats with modish millinery from Manhattan Hatter Sally Victor; the A.F. of L. Teamsters' droop-jowled old Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin; War Manpower's Paul McNutt; ex-Pennsylvania Congressman James McGranery. And there was always able, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant, head of the International Labor Office since 1939 and now U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston. But the nasty U.S. correspondent-a vicious roasting of all American journalists who dare to suspect or find one flaw in the Soviet system-was harder to place. Most obvious counterpart in Soviet eyes: the Reader's Digest's William L. White, foreign correspondent and author (They Were Expendable), who accompanied Eric Johnston to Russia last summer. Fortnight ago, Reporter White's Report on the Russians was violently lambasted in Pravda as a "fascist stew" (TIME...
This week TIME Correspondent John Hersey cabled that Mr. Perkins' Mission was "the strangest literary coincidence of the war. Korneichuk wrote the play last spring. Eric Johnston and William L. White visited Russia during the summer. In the play there are no similarities to Johnston and White either in physical appearance of the actors or in characteristics as revealed by the lines. But to Muscovites, 'Mr. Perkins' is Eric Johnston and 'Mr. Hemp' is Bill White. And that is how it will be, as long as the play runs...