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Jackson baldly stated that he thought it was Black who had waged a subtle war in Washington to keep him from getting the Chief Justiceship. He intimated that Elack had used pert Washington Star Columnist Doris Fleeson to further his ends. He quoted from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
...Pert Judy Garland (Mrs. Vincente Minnelli) burlesquing a world-weary but oh-so-cordial movie queen in a dance-and-doggerel brush with the press. ¶ Tenor James Melton and Soprano Marion Bell warbling their way through the wine-cup scene from Verdi's La Traviata...
...three-man Cabinet committee to plan the strategy for "the Battle of the Bread." Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams launched a new "Dig for Victory" campaign. Lord Aberconway, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, announced that his members would continue to resist the temptation to reconvert to flowers. Pert Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson appealed to Britons to carry on in "the Dunkirk spirit...
...teen-age market, they should know what the kids want." For his key workers he appointed the "Joe Guns" (most popular students) of Chicago high schools as "research supervisors," gave them 75? an hour to poll students. He now has a staff of 350 adolescent aides and a pert, blonde fashion director, 18-year-old Shirley Rappelt...
Married. Virginia Cowles, 33, pert Manhattan socialite, whose chatty bestseller, Looking for Trouble, recounted her five years (1936-1941) as a roving European correspondent with the charm and looks to meet the right people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...