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...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...
...first word of Pearl Harbor reached Washington at 1:45 p.m., Dec. 7. Navy Secretary Knox, the color gone from his ruddy features, called Franklin Roosevelt, who sat at lunch in the White House Oval Study, eating from a desk tray, tieless, shirt-sleeved. Said Knox: "Mr. President, it looks like the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor...
Lounging in seersucker trousers, a blue shirt open at the collar, tieless, he told reporters at Hyde Park that he still hoped that the U.S. could stay out of the war. But he made it clear that his hope was not to be confused with belief. In September 1939 he had said: "I hope the United States will keep out of this war. I believe that it will." Somewhere in the two years the belief had vanished...
Last week Diego Rivera fled to the U. S. Disheveled, tieless, in shirt sleeves, he debarked from a plane at San Antonio. "Where is Paulette? Where is she?" he loudly inquired, peering around the airport. He referred to Cinemactress Paulette
...year-old Manhattan dress designer, showed a chic hand with the muckrake as well as a sound knowledge of women's clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...