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...Percy was a landlubber for only the first 14 of his 61 years, and he came out of World War I a Captain. Once a squash-courts pal of the Duke of Windsor, he is the possessor of a face which fancies somewhat "that little man with the mousetrap mouth," Jellicoe of Jutland, of a sympathetic, discreet presence somewhere between the bedside manner of a family doctor and the last-testament-drafting manner of a family lawyer, and of a high reputation for naval alertness...
Cambridge's pudgy Mayor John W. Lyons and his pal and co-defendant Paul Mannos, a Brookline contractor, served their first day under fire yesterday in the Middlesex Superior Court under indictment on 66 charges of general conspiracy and bribery...
...quarter-century, through hell & high water, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson had cherished beyond all other friends his pal Max Annenberg. They had met when Max, forsaking Hearst, was strong-arming his way up as powerful circulation builder for the Chicago Tribune; friendship had deepened as the German-Jewish ex-newsboy pushed circulation of Publisher Patterson's New York Daily News to the largest...
...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) burly (220 Ib.) recruit with a mouth-filling name reports this week to the Air Corps station at Maxwell Field, Ala. The recruit: 20-year-old Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, U. S.-born son of Harvardman "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playing pal of Adolf Hitler. Father "Putzi," who jumped from the German frying pan just in time, landed in a Canadian concentration camp. His son, a U. S. citizen, left his Harvard class for a three-year hitch in the Air Corps...
...full of corn as a silo. Dear Mom recounts the adventures of an addlepated rookie named Homer Stubbs, and his highborn pal Red Foster, son of a factory owner, who helps him badger a tough top-sergeant called Monihan. Devised by stocky, moon-faced Robert Newton Brown, CBS program director, and writer W. Ray Wilson, Dear Mom is supervised by Major Frank Collins, a morale officer on the executive staff of the 6th Corps Area. The program whips into a description of the joys of camp life, introduces Homer scratching away at a letter to his mother. Its first episode...