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...Yeoman at Work. To fill the third spot on the CEA, Harry Truman named 48-year-old Dr. Roy Blough (rhymes with how), Pittsburgh-born son of a Church of the Brethren minister. President Truman got him from the University of Chicago, where he taught economics and political science...
Boyish-faced Dr. Blough is no stranger to Washington. He worked for Harry Hopkins in the early days of the relief program, later served Henry Morgenthau as a tax adviser when Morgenthau was Secretary of the Treasury. He did quiet, yeoman's work in both departments, has a national reputation as a tax expert...
...credo. From the day in 1902 when his first slim volume of Salt-Water Ballads rolled off a London press, John Masefield the poet has kept close companionship with the hearts of a generation of British and U.S. readers. In rhythms as forthright as the beat of a yeoman's pulse and lines as graceful as the curtsy of a tall East Indiaman in the wallow of a seaway, his verses have sung of the countrysides Britons love, of the sports and sportsmen dear to their hearts and of the gallant voyaging that is the stuff of their history...
Pressed into troopship service in World War I, she used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said...
...pigeons lay headless on the very greensward of the medieval Tower of London where Anne Boleyn's head had rolled. "At night," said one of the Tower's famed Beefeaters last week, "we heard awful noises in the casements." Yeoman Quartermaster Thomas Johns set out four traps, and what he caught was enough to startle even that grizzled veteran of two wars. "I thought," he said, "I was in the wilds of Borneo. I saw nothing like this one in India." The quarry was a huge and ferocious cat whose writhing body "nearly filled the two-foot cage...