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...American Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Minister Baudouin conveyed Marshal Pétain's "extreme indignation," but assured him for what it was worth: "There is nothing that can break the friendship of France toward the United States." To foreign pressmen M. Baudouin continued: "Yesterday's French dead at Oran have rendered us the service of liberating us from England's domination, allowing us to be politically free to follow a purely French policy." France, he added, was determined, with the consent of Germany and Italy, to defend herself by sea and air against any further attacks. French...
Among the Tribune's, stockholders were such New Deal bigwigs as Senator Norris, who put up $100; President George Berry of the Pressmen's Union, who put up $1,000; Francis Biddle, Solicitor General...
...last fortnight Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson was reading an early edition of her Washington Times-Herald. She called her office. Said Cissie: "Martha Blair bores me - kill the column." So pressmen ripped open the forms, jerked out These Charming People by Martha Blair, a column about Washington's social stratosphere...
Dunkers in all-night coffee pots and diners, cabbies dozing on the late-trick hack lines, night watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with...
...trip nowhere had more influence than on George VI himself. Two years ago he took on his job at a few hours' notice, having expected to play a quiet younger brother role to Brother Edward all his life. Pressmen who followed him around the long loop from Quebec to Halifax were struck by the added poise and self-confidence that George drew from the ordeal. Filled with new pride in their King & Queen, Britons were preparing to give them a monster welcome-with millions lining the railroad right-of-way to London -calculated to top anything the Yankees...