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...Hugh Dowding, British Air Chief Marshal, like most visitors emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, was waylaid by reporters as he left the White House. He had spent an important 50 minutes going over the problems of the R. A. F. with the President and Harry Hopkins. Sir Hugh, lanky, literal-minded, and shocked, said curtly to the reporters: "I don't talk with the President and then come out and tell what was discussed." Few White House visitors do. Nobody expects them to. Most reporters would be shaken to the depths of their propriety if such...
...induction into office, stocky. Pennsylvania Dutch Governor Guy J. Swope decreed no congas or rumbas at the reception in the ancient La Fortaleza-nothing more venturesome than a waltz. Reason: WPAsters readying the floors for the occasion had put on such a high polish that a pre-inaugural visitor slipped and broke...
Lodged in the university-operated Carolina Inn, the visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another...
...years ago shuffleboard was taken ashore, made a major sport at St. Petersburg, Fla. Most of St. Pete's winter visitors are middleaged, middle-class U. S. citizens, too churchgoing for horse racing, too homespun for golf. Shuffleboard suited them to a P and Q. From early morning till late at night, they shoved little discs over Mirror Lake Park's 103 shuffleboard courts. Every visitor tried the game at least once. Gradually they abandoned horseshoe pitching, the sport that first brought fame to St. Pete...
...rich U. S. friends. Some of his backers: Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann department stores; Lawyer Louis Nizer, who lately published a book. Thinking On Your Feet; Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco; Father Thomas Mann. A Czech citizen, in the U. S. on a visitor's permit, Klaus Mann gets no salary for his editorial labors, is not an officer of Decision, Inc. His only pay is for his articles...