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Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 33, tiger-shooting, deep-sea-fishing, airplane-flying, labor unioneer (Newspaper Guild) daughter of the late publisher of the New York Daily News; and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 50, whose specialty is such uncomfortably detailed pictures of decay as Into The World There Came A Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray he painted for MGM: a son, their first child (she had two by her previous marriage); in Chicago. Name: Adam. Weight...
...bill would not merge all U.S. fighting arms into a single fighting service, as Patterson had originally hoped. But it would coordinate the equal departments of Army, Navy and the new, autonomous Air Forces under a single, Cabinet-rank Secretary of National Security* (TIME, Jan. 27). The Navy would keep control of its own air forces (roughly parallel to Britain's Fleet Air Arm); the Marine Corps would keep its traditional alliance with the Navy. It was victory enough for Bob Patterson...
...fill out Patterson's job and possibly to continue in the subordinate Army post after merger becomes a fact, the President nominated able, even-tempered, 6 ft. 5 in. Under Secretary Kenneth C. Royall. A former $50,000-a-year trial lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C., Royall had reluctantly abandoned his independent, easygoing life soon after World War II began, to accept a colonelcy in the Army Service Force's Legal Section...
...July 20, 1942). He had perked up more when he got a brigadier general's star. In October 1945, he was pleased to be named Under Secretary, although he yearned for North Carolina. Charged chiefly with procurement, Royall did such a good job that he was marked as Patterson's successor...
...first appearance (1938) of her column in the Los Angeles Times, Hedda was made. In 1940 she switched from Esquire to the Des Moines Register & Tribune syndicate; in 1942, she pulled off her grand coup of wooing & winning syndicating contracts from the New York Daily News's Joe Patterson and the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On that day, June 1, Lolly Parsons arched her back but moved over on the fence. Hedda had become a major Hollywood gossip...