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...Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, where they filed their first stories of internment under the Japs, 26 U.S. correspondents grimly compared notes with the sassy Jap correspondents returning with tennis racquets and golf clubs from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Last week the U.S. newsmen ended their long voyage home aboard the Gripsholm. By comparison with their sadistic treatment in Jap prisons and concentration camps, even those U.S. correspondents interned in Germany and Italy had been pampered...
Axis diplomats, who had been luxuriously entertained at posh hotels in White Sulphur Springs and Asheville, did little beefing...
Speaker Sam Rayburn's speech in Sulphur Springs, Tex. was billed as a unity rally. But everybody knew that the rally was Sam Rayburn's way of hitting back at the New Deal-hating Dallas Morning News. The News has been tooth-&-claw against the 40-hour week, ignoring the fact that U.S. workers in seven key defense industries work on an average of 48.2 hours. One day the News attacked Sam Rayburn: "Let the Speaker of the House each day place on the wall behind his chair, where Old Glory's furls are draped, a fresh...
Somebody had given Mrs. Isbelle and the News a bum steer. Armed with letters from the War Department, Sam Rayburn entrained for Texas. At Sulphur Springs, to 2,500 cheering, stomping Administration backers, he gave his answer...
Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported...