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...Said one Washingtonian last week: "There's only one thing that worries me more than the present state of the war effort. That's to think what it would be like by now without Truman." For a Congressional committee to be considered the first line of defense-especially in a nation which does not tend to admire its representatives, in Congress assembled- is encouraging to believers in democracy. So is the sudden emergence of Harry Truman, whose presence in the Senate is a queer accident of democracy, as the committee's energetic generalissimo...
...Jones. Aided by his mighty right, he can sock a ball nearly 300 yards. "But," he moans, "I have trouble with my left hook and just ain't got that delicate touch around the greens." Still, under the private instruction of Bermudian Pro Louis Corbin and Washingtonian Clyde Martin, his present tutor, Louis has become a better than average golfer, has often chalked up scores in the middle 70s. Last fortnight, in the National Negro Amateur, he shot 79 in the opening round...
...once to Washington. This envoy was peculiarly fitted to the emergency job: he is Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Ministry, during World War I was Chairman of the Allied Maritime Transport Executive; has often visited the U. S. and last year married an American and a Washingtonian, Mrs. Ethel Bagg...
...that Justice James Clark McReynolds was "Apparently . . . both stupid [and] lazy," and that "for a man of his sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author of the Mills piece, to use the material. Later he sent Smith a check for $50. But the Washingtonian had been published with the required statutory notice of copyright. When Mrs. Blair Banister, The Washingtonian...
With a new crew coach appointed at Princeton, the "Big Three" crews are now manned by former Washingtonian rowers...