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...radio telephone from the French Liner Liberté, at sea last week, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post got an exclusive social tidbit: "Perle Mesta, American minister to Luxembourg and Washington's famous partygiver, starred as a guest at a party . . . She was guest of honor at the captain's table . . . [and] proved that she could 'take' as well as 'give' parties amiably." The Post's alert shipboard correspondent went on to prove himself a master of society-page cliches: the passengers, "a notable representation of the diplomatic, political and social elite...
Hearing that a group of 300 young U.S. sightseers had been stranded in her bailiwick, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta quickly opened a lunch counter at the U.S. legation, doled out free baked beans, ham sandwiches, apple pie and coffee. Said Hostess Mesta: "No American boy or girl is going to be hungry in Luxembourg if I can prevent...
...which had three fine regiments, wonderful artillery and good battalion of armor and excellent spare parts. Hemingstein was only a guest of this division, but he tried to make himself useful. He was with them through the Normandy breakthrough, Schnee Eifel, Hürtgen and the defense of Luxembourg...
Married. Princess Alix, 20, daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Antoine de Ligne, 25, Belgian air force captain, son of the Belgian ambassador to India; in Luxembourg...
...cyclists swung through the tip of Luxembourg and Belgium, then down the French coast, Italian tactics seemed to be paying off. Bartali was close to the leaders, and the Italian team had won five of the first nine laps. The French team had won only one lap, and French partisans began to get restless. When Italian Alfredo Pasetti won the ninth lap, Bordeaux fans greeted him with shouts of "Macaroni" and "Dirty Fascists...