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...cubbyhole office, but could be seen day or night in the lobby or grill of Seattle's Olympic Hotel, where he talked to hundreds of Seattleites. One day he dressed up in kilts, marched down to Victory Square to greet a group of visiting bagpipers from a Vancouver shipyard. The talk he heard made Democrat Magnuson uneasy. Said he: "The temper of the people is alarming. We've got to streamline these war agencies or the people will swing too far and have them abolished entirely...
Down the launching ways at the big Bethlehem Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass, slid the destroyer escort Harmon, first U.S. warship named for a Negro. Navy Secretary Frank Knox had assigned the name in honor of Roy Harmon, Navy messman, who gave his life aboard the cruiser San Francisco in the Battle of Guadalcanal last November...
...Beaumont, Tex., 3,000 workers in the Pennsylvania Shipyard dropped their tools one night last week, marched on the city jail, seeking a Negro reportedly held there on a white woman's charge of rape. Finding the report false, the mob rioted in Beaumont's two Negro districts, finally wound up before the county courthouse...
...Louise was a stenographer in the socially unacceptable Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. (The episode is so elusively treated that a naive reader might conclude that she had been in naval intelligence ever since.) Then she moved to New York, married-a Yale man of good family working in a bank-lived in uptown Manhattan in a weird apartment, began to write magazine articles, and found a brief breathing space in life...
...celebrated the leaving of the seniors by hatching out seven little ones...she evidently got her Active Duty assignment Of the sixty-six Nieman Follows, only six have left journalism for any other activity than military or emergency wartime government service. Of these six, one is executive in a shipyard, one with the Red Cross Blood Donor Service, two handling public relations of large aviation and munitions industries, and one assistant to the Co-ordinate or Inter American Affairs...