Word: workroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There must have been an extraordinary meeting that morning in his pine-paneled workroom, with his aides: General Alfred Jodl, the powerful, anonymous chief of his personal staff; huge Julius Schaub, his personal adjutant and bodyguard; Chief Adjutant Colonel Schmundt of the General Staff; Army Aide Major Engel; Navy Aide Captain von Puttkammer; Air Aide Major von Below, and a few others-Adolf Hitler's trusted links with the fighting forces whose preparations were already made...
...Winans, moved into a fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor...
...beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British...