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...Daphne Skouras, daughter of 20th Century-Fox Chief Spyros Skouras, by her marriage to Oren Root Jr., socialite lawyer who organized the Willkie Clubs...
Lesson. In Bremerton, Wash., Oren B. Relyea forfeited $50 bail on a charge of negligent driving, resumed his job teaching a "driver education" class...
Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination...
...Translating theory into action, A.V.C. members picketed a tavern which refused to serve two Negro veterans, had the proprietor arrested for violation of the Iowa state civil-rights law on charges backed by onetime Willkie-man Oren Root Jr. Next day, the New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. drafted a full-page ad complimenting the city of Des Moines on prompt police action...
...published a declaration of principles, in the form of a petition to the platform makers of both parties. The declaration, widely reprinted, had an electric effect. Around him rallied almost overnight, thousands of Americans, most of them political amateurs, who had suddenly found a spokesman. Among them were young Oren Root Jr., who promptly formed the Willkie Clubs, and, FORTUNE Editor Russell Davenport, who resigned his editorial job to direct the Willkie campaign, begun just two months before the Republican convention...