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From the rough pine stage of the post theater at Luke Field, Ariz., the President's wispy little assistant, Lauchlin Currie, who has seen China's war problem at firsthand, read them a personal message from Franklin Roosevelt: "To you, the first group . . . my heartiest congratulations. . . . I am...
¶As economic adviser, wispy-haired, squinty Lewis Williams Douglas, 47, onetime Arizona Congressman, onetime Budget Director. Lewis Douglas quit in protest against New Deal spending policies, became president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, was a leading Democrat-for-Willkie in 1940. Last month he and President...
Among the missing were two members of the Philippine Assembly, many another Filipino personally known to wispy President Manuel Quezon. Said he: "My heart goes out to the families of those who perished in this terrible accident, some of whom were dear personal friends who had rendered signal public service...
Actor Kaufman, complete with spectacles, a wispy beard and a wicked musache, bore down on the part of Sheridan Whiteside, the famed lecturer who goes to a dull dinner party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks. Looking unaccountably Machiavellian, not...
Editions de la Maison Française, in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, is run by a wispy, gentle, bespectacled little Frenchman named V. S. Crespin, who became a U.S. citizen in 1925. He set up a business importing new, old and rare books from France. One day after France...