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Army Wife. Mamie was bright, but she was no student. She sighed with relief when she was through at Miss Wolcott's, a Denver finishing school, and could turn to the real and fascinating business of her young life: ruling her string of beaux. Then, on a family winter vacation in San Antonio, she met 2nd Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nine months later, at 19, she was married. She went for a honeymoon visit with Eisenhower's parents in Abilene, Kans., had her marriage's first bitter quarrel - after Dwight refused, in flat tones, to come home...
...York's Daniel Reed and John Taber, Ohio's Thomas A. Jenkins, Massachusetts' Joseph W. Martin, Edith Nourse Rogers and Richard B. Wigglesworth, Kansas' Clifford Hope, New Jersey's Charles A. Wolverton, Michigan's Jesse P. Wolcott...
...Truman Administration's floundering stabilization program. Nevertheless, Republicans do not plan to end all wage and price controls immediately after Jan. 20. Key G.O.P. Senators and Representatives want to give the new Administration a chance to work out an attitude toward controls. Michigan's Representative Jesse Wolcott and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, who will head the committees most interested in controls, plan public hearings in early February. The general course Wolcott would like to chart...
Died. James Wolcott Wadsworth, 74, New York's Republican Senator (1915-27), who returned to the Capitol as an upstate Congressman (1933-51), in 1940 co-authored (with Nebraska's Democratic Senator Edward Burke) the first peacetime U.S. draft law; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. A colorless public speaker, he was widely respected by both political camps in Washington as an able, intelligent legislator, with a special interest in national defense. His uncompromising opposition to women's suffrage and Prohibition helped unseat him in the Senate, but as an expert on military affairs, he felt that...
When Drama Critic Wolcott Gibbs wrote Season in the Sun, which kidded Ross unmercifully, he went to see the play and liked it, although puzzled by it. "Everybody says it's just like me," he complained, "but I don't do that...