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Just Give Me Time. At LaGuardia Field, N.Y., Mrs. James Booras, christening her husband's new twin-engined plane, took resolute aim with a champagne bottle, fanned the air, fanned it again, fanned it 28. more times, at the 31st...
Then, at their closing session, UNRRA delegates got a shot of hope & vigor from their new Director General-bumptious, bell-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia...
...Diplomat." Waving his arms, "Butch" LaGuardia warned the foreign delegates of something they might not know: that he is "no diplomat." Cried he: "Protocol is off. ... I want plows, not typewriters. . . . Ticker tape ain't spaghetti. ... I want fast-moving ships...
...Fiorello LaGuardia, old-scold columnist for 1) PM, 2) Sachs Quality Stores, tired of having his Sachs column rejected by Manhattan papers,* wrote something different, prayed in print: "I hope no fault will be found with it." Bulk of his column: Little Bopeep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, three other nursery favorites. That got printed-except by the Daily News...
...never did catch up with his schedule. Last week his February issue, on the stands in London, had not yet reached its 500 U.S. subscribers. When the paper shortage pinched Britain in 1941, Horizon all but starved to death. Appeals from such surprising readers as Manhattan's Fiorello LaGuardia convinced the British Government that the magazine should be kept alive. (Last year it lost only ?30 and considered it a victory...