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After five years in London, John Gilbert Winant resigned last week as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He would be succeeded by William Averell Harriman, who quit a month ago as U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Winant would assume a new post as permanent delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (a body he helped create...
Most of Washington wondered why Harriman got the job-he had served competently but not brilliantly in Moscow, had come home saying he wanted to stay there. As for quiet Gil Winant-the nation seemed to remember him best as the man who looked like Lincoln...
...mollify this crowd the U.S. Embassy sent grey-haired Commander Herbert Agar, U.S.N.R., looking like the young Dante in a Navy uniform. Herbert Agar, onetime editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the past two and a half years a special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Winant, has long been an eloquent interpreter of the U.S. to Britain...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower learned that he would receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Oxford next month. (So would General Mark Clark, Ambassador John Winant, Harry Hopkins, British Field Marshals Montgomery and Brooke, Air Chief Marshal Tedder...
...Virginia Cowles, 33, pert Manhattan socialite, whose chatty bestseller, Looking for Trouble, recounted her five years (1936-1941) as a roving European correspondent with the charm and looks to meet the right people, lately special assistant to U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant; and R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Aidan Crawley, 37, athletic Oxfordian who was elected to Britain's new Labor Parliament, son of the Rev. Canon A. S. Crawley, chaplain to King George VI; both for the first time; in London...