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...mixed and administered her formula. Geraldine Mary Whitehouse, the youngest passenger ever flown across the North Atlantic route by the Air Transport Command, exhibited a placid, healthy interest in her toes. Much less sure of himself, Father Whitehouse delayed seeing his wife, headed straight for his mother's three-room apartment. Startled, Mrs. Whitehouse Senior remarked "Well, I didn't expect this kind of Christmas present." Then she added: "But I'm not ashamed. Most boys would have run away...
Only two followed suit. The five newly-arrived delegates from EAM's mountain headquarters sized the situation up, marched straight to Papandreou to receive their portfolios. For the first time since the Nazis came to Greece, Greeks had a united government. Sophocles moved from his three-room suite at Shepheard's Hotel to an austere single room...
...Dispossessed. It was a bit of a tight fit at Mother's. By the time we arrived another sister was there, just bombed out. And two days later another sister landed, bombed out too. They all had kids so you can imagine what it was like in a three-room bungalow. Well, anyway, in a couple of days Kit was right enough again to have the usual wrangle with the usual nasty billeting officer and finally got a billet with, somebody. But next day that person's mother and family, also bombed out, arrived, so the billet...
Scene II: the Blackstone. To Bob Hannegan's three-room suite in the venerable old Blackstone Hotel, two nights before the convention, went P.A.C.'s Chair man Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Also present: Postmaster General Frank Walker. Mincing no words, Messrs. Hillman & Murray told Bob Hannegan and Frank Walker that Jimmy Byrnes was not acceptable to P.A.C. Reasons: 1) he is a confirmed Southerner; 2) as OWMobilizer, he has held wages down. Hillman and Murray then went a good deal farther. No Southerner, they said, would get P.A.C. backing. Jimmy Byrnes gracefully withdrew. P.A.C...
...however, knew one another intimately in the Ukranian town of Proskurov where Pincas Glantz and Isaac Fishberg played in the local band under the Czars. The patriarch Isaac Fishberg, 94, is still as spry as a Bessarabian goat. He lives with his grey-haired wife Fannie in a little three-room apartment in Brooklyn. Isaac is a flutist. Last week Isaac conducted the Fishberg family's Passover services with true patriarchal dignity. Fishbergs from Manhattan and The Bronx, with their wives and children, put away their fiddles and trombones to visit him in Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac...