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...Willard Hotel one evening last week rode President Roosevelt to sit with Cabinet members, Senators, newspapermen, miscellaneous bigwigs, hear his New Deal joshed at the semi-annual stag dinner of the Gridiron Club. Far more interested was Washington in the doings of 500 official and newspaper women left behind. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited them to a masquerade party?first in the White House since President Tyler entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant...
However, speed and courtesy in serving are points number two and three on Miss Lee's program, and yesterday she demonstrated them as she served an appreciative audience of newspapermen. Miss Lee, you see, must serve as model Exhibit A for the student workers who will have the bulk of the job of filling the Harvard stomach this fall...
...Magnificenze!" the slender, dark-haired Italian threw out his hands in an all-expressive gesture. It was Luigi Beccali, Olympic champion in the 1500 meters, who was speaking to an inquisitive audience of Boston newspapermen in the smoke-filled track room at Dillon Field House...
...chill, rainy night four days after President Roosevelt's inauguration, a group of newspapermen huddled under the White House portico, waiting for the proclamation which would keep every bank in the land closed for days. Dolefully, four of the men started to sing "Home on the Range." National Broadcasting Co. heard of their performance, persuaded them to sing their song over the radio, introduced them as the White House Portico Quartet.* The song and the singers got national publicity. President Roosevelt interrupted an important conference to listen to the program, afterwards telephoned the broadcasting studio and pretended...
Merry-Go-Round: Harry Woodring, Assistant Secretary of War is becoming cautious. ... As he emerged from his last session [before the grand jury] . . . he was approached by a group of newspapermen. "Sorry," said Harry, "but General MacArthur has told me not to talk." NOTE: General MacArthur . . . is Woodring's subordinate but actually runs the War Department...