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HE day bofers Christmins
I wan In oh the murder of a tradition on stiffor than that of West Point or Sandhurst the WAC's and 1 rodo aboard a Navy destroyer. at sca.
MY BOSS
By KAY SUMMERSBY
The ship win golog 10 Copri, carrying General Eisenhower over for on inspection tour. Soinchew managing to shatter this oldest f Navy regulations, he wrangled invitations for us females. Luckily, On the night to Algiers I cursed He chose a gorgeous afternoon filler General Eisenhower most disloyally, with bright sunshine and a soft if silently, Our Christmas dinner broze, the one clear day we Baw consisted of a vold, tasteless, de- during our entire visit in Italy. Yet, pressing Army K-rallon. seeing Capri Itself, it seemed im- possible that the weather could be other than lovely, for the place la
of the most Burely one of
beautiful spots on this earth. !..
We toured the famed resort fh teos, captivated by the indescribable colour, the luxurious air of semi- tropien leisure, and the attractive. gay little villas.
General Eisenhower, however, spotted a villa which wasn't exactly miniature. "Whose is that?" ho asked, poln'ing. "Yours, Sir" was the reply. The General reddened, then nodded at another house, so fabulous it appeared on loan from Hollywood. "And that?" "That one belongs to Gicheral Spantz,
our answered. Iko asked about several others, before erupting: "Damn it, that's not my villa! And that's not General Spants' viilat None of those will belong to any Reneral as long as I'm boss around here. This is supposed to be a rest centre for combat men-not a play ground for the Brass!"
The
villas were decommissioned, within hours after we left, reserved for the men who really needed them.
A
Hendquarters was split into two
happy distinct camps-tile
staff members slated to go to London with the General, and the down-in-the- mouth people staying behind. I was the pleased to learn that all on household staff and the officla family were coming along, including Mattle Pinette, one of the original five WAC officers, now assigned to our office for the first time..
At the same tline, poor Butch again suffered the
rure Eisenhower wrath for breaking regulations.
That night. I had my doubts.
I coaxed the Packard down to Addison Road Station, the same place from wh'ch General Elsenhower Left for North Africa.
General Ike looked very well indeed, freshed by his visit home.
town
The author being decorated; by Prince Bernhard of the
Notharlands..
Jimmy Gault then directed me down to It was, too. The sun was little war more than a fuzzy spot high up in
wards Berkeley Square, to Chesterfeld the dark fort. All Ughts blazed at where, we stopped before the office with night-time strength. n dim building on the Everything was topsy-turvy, being.
the General's corner. This was Jim- made ready for
my's pride and joy, Hays arrival.
Lodge, an
attractive and furnished "The Boss is coming in tonight," nicely
"Fog's so bad that house which was to serve 116
1, for the nrst time, had a commer Tex expialued., it's impossible to fly down from General's home and head- in which to start whittling down the Prestwick. Gault's up there with
In the
elly, It was surprisingly. Jorge pile of "fan mail,” special train." He looked quen- pleasant, after the fog, to step inside alcandy beginning to split almost and colimpse into the plush chairs. equally into letters from Americans General Ike Inspected the upstairs and those from Britishera. The was
the basenient and
and
his staff, handing announced. to his Military Assistant's
nod getting satisfaction, that he liked it very reacquainted with pre-Torch friends, much.", "But I'd still rather live in from headquarters guards right up Telegraph Cottage, out of town," he to the King of England. He made sald wistfully.
his
loningly at me. "They're due in about 11 p.m., Kay. Sure you can drive through this fog-or will it lift. by then?"
should
I tougheck. - "Laft?, This is n pea- snuper, Tex. It'll be worse by to if anything. But I He walked in one day and pre- night. sented Ike with that painting from know London well enough to driva the Naples villa. Instead of om- It blind-folded. barrassed appreciation, Butch will amount to."
rc-
ceived a warning stare. "How did you get that?" General Ike asked.
Just cut it out from the frame," Butch sa'd, bewildered. Looting, in one form or another, was so wido- spread among the armies that It failed to attract attention any more. Butch probably hadn't done thing more than obey an impulse; ho knew the General Ilked the painting, so he sliced it out without further thought.
any-
But General Bas. didn't give him Ume for an explanation. “You prob- ably meant well" he yelled, “but' don't care what you thought. I don't approve of looting in any shape, any time, anywhere. And I don't want to hear any more about this-you just get it back to that villa as soon as you can!"
Back To England
I FELT sorry for Butch, who had startled by the expression on
the same expression as a tomeat hla very dead mouse. master's face when he brings in a On the last day of 1943. General Eisenhower departed for the United
.which is what it
The Hers
then sym
Within the week, we were settled into the same old 20 Grosvenor Square offees left behind in 1042.
out
Arst friendly call upon -His Majesty several days later, and was rather touched when the King naked (Continued on Page 5)
William Hickey
It
1948 was the year when rewards: went to those
best able to
hit back
In the medical laboratories there The money is spent by the RA... ¦
IT HAS been a bruis- has been nothing like "penicillin," but the pictures are then handed to
ing year- bruising to Top development is largely to the the Tate. pockets and to prestige.
The people who came through best were the people who stood their ground after a smack in the eye.
credit of Mr LESTER SMirri, whose new discoveries. In blood research
-
Christmas Eve FTER a quick lunch at Red Cross headquarters and visit to the pleturesque, cliff-bordered villa of Axel Munthe, the famous author, we, headed back to the destroyer and to Naples.
That night was Christmas Eve.
all gathered at the General's Just outside the elty, in
But the Tato dislike the selection dreamy
location overlooking the
look like leading directly
so much that, out of 330 pictures Bay Naples and Mount Vesuvius.
to the bought for £145,000 in the last 70 of
was it small tree, bravely
cure of pernicious anaemia. There
years, they have only shown 12 decorated with bicets whien
Ablak year in radio,
(and a bust by Epstein). included strings of
supplied
"Old popcorn
stences"
It is continuo "old
battle between tales. is a by Butch for communal popping.
stendies." The one new voice is Seventy-year-old. ‚BIN ALFRED He left behind a headquar gave each other silly
For what do you remember a man JOHN things, Just States,
ters
Biled with the sounds of moving by? By fine achieveminis, by mur-
ARLOTT Olympic Games MUNNINGS, president of the RA, 1o keep the Yulet'd spirit alive,
*Dic and
The latter
commentator now broadcasting from likes the so-called "popular" farewells. General Iku gave itoman. coins tu
were dering his wife, by his personality? South Africa with the M.C.C. tures that tell a story. all his "house" family. My owner, and unusually quiet;, those | By these-yes; but also by something cricket
brief
comfortable, tenni. Hig
Tale
JOHN Gattery director imaginative and expensive presents who were leaving didn't have the more-by what he attempted, The bumble-bee voice makes you want to ROTHENSTEIN
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champlons to the Boss-a plain white handker- heart to gloat over the stay-behinds, dificulties he overcame, be what the get out into the sun.
what he considers subtler works. who slipped through the halls with
Americans call "guitiness."
Rolbenstein's newest strategy is I was glud when
Television moves into its first big to ask Munnings, to hold an exhibi- The Generat seemed relaxed and funereal gloom.
our time come to leave.
For a long time beyond 1940 ume Christmas-without any star in comparatively happy, although ag
tion of the entire picture-purchase. men will remember TRUMAN for the class of New York's MILTON homesick as all of us; it was a Our last stop in North Africa was
He counts on the intellectuals lough- 1 makeshift, make-do Christmas for Marrakech. It couldn't have been that "reason the year's No. BENLE.
ing them back to the celları. Hitter-Back: And with his name The not-very-ncar nearest four-star a loveller spot in which to leave both must go GEORGE MARSHALL, his JOAN GILBERT of "Picture Page," from there, general to Gi waiter, from. Red tragic and hoppy memories. Cross giri to civilign driver.
Secretary of State, who has fought to many eyes an irritating woman— If Marrakech gave us a pleasant-health and fatigue to change the nevertheless the closest thing to a outside no
and
Europe. For the past 12 British television star. of B-17 promised a nico trip. Brand- months have seen only two major
chief
everyone
wandered
View
of the rainy cl enjoyed thu farewell, General Eisenhower's new story of all the dirt and dainage.th, new and smartly decorated in rich changes in world power-polities: in TRATA' with all the death and despair turant last word in aerial luxury-a Com China; in the West the operation of polniments,
I thought leather, this Flying Fort offered the the East the crumble of Chinng's
the Marshall Plan.] harder.
BEVIN? CRIFYS? PRIME MINISTER!
of a lunch we ate in a where Caruso sang, a lunch sabo- fort Station. taged by heart-breaking sight A Despite the new fear of German
Italians digging in the slop. tagged
slo-nighters from Europe, the trip North and refuse for
even
a shred of was smooth, fast and uneventful. palatable food. Perhaps that was why General ike so
As our plane dropped on to on so admired the
Even ILARTLEY BHAWCROSS painting in his
American base in southern England,for him living r
vivid room, a
a year of lovely lime Sue pointed out the window and view of
the bay, the city, and
There's a Russian view new banished to yelled: "Look! mories, a view never to
10 officer!"
be seen again. Going back into the villa, I took another look at that picture and knew why the General ilked it so much. Soon afterwards,
the party broke up.
Two Camps
ROUND nine o'clock the next morning we flew to Tunis, Gent-
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all the disap-
the
mediocrity, the SID FIELD
thinks his
sense of staleness, there have been
stage
Here in London the choice is also the cheerful flashes. 1948 re- sketch as a snooker tyre has dam- The membered many men for many-aged his market value. In London's Albany Club Christmas cooker reasons. Women, too:
handicap-in which players are GRACIE FIELDS, for turning a auctioned to other members Sid was perfect cartwheel at the age of 50, and in so doing (along with other talents) proving that a British music more as horse-flesh," said Sid. hall rtist can still pack, the Pal- Jadlum.
1948
I looked and laughed. She was ankle-length gray. pointing to an overcoat which could only belong to an oficer of the crock, legendary Scots Guards. And the man insido that overcoat was about as Russian light would need more than as the House of Lords-Lieu'cnant stamina, sunvity, and
self-coaft Colonel Jimmy Gault, General dence to plead the proposition that Eisenhower's Milltary Assistant.
1940 had brought new glory to the Socialist leaders.
Blurred World
AWAY
INGRID BERGMAN, for halting n procession of disillusionment by. proving even pleasanter in the Besh
celluloid. than on
DR EDITII SUMMERSKILL, or keeping the loyalty of a husband she feeds on snock
MRS FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, for the year's oddest title: "The racing housewife,"
knocked
down for £135. "I'd fetch Whoever bought the contest win- ner stood to win all the other bids. this time totalling about £9,000. Other famous names featured in the bargain basement: ARTHUR AS- KEY'S chance of winning was reckoned at £18; JACK HYLTON got three quick nods, and went for £30, TEDDY KNOX fetched £100. Bookmakers' favourite was West
End, Oysterman DICK BENTLEY The prize for winning is about £300, to players may buy
chiren?
ral Elsenhower happy with his nicest เ
Air Vice-Marshal DONALD BEN-. Christmas present-President Roose- THE next and last stop was velt's official radio announcement T
from politics, 100, NETT, 37-year-old Clilef Executivo back from bidders a half-share in Bovington Airport; whero, while the record taken up little space. of British South american Airways themselves. Sid Field has risked it. that Ike would lead the invasion Tex and the girls tried to hide our There is OLIVIER, of course. Hts ..for losing his jub because he bo>, torces on to Europe.
Moroccan fruit from awed station "Hamlet," criticised by many as "not lieved in the British-built Tudor MOST awkward age for. The Tunis stop was made in order personnel, I telephoned my mother, a Alm in the pure sense," is none IV, airliner; and then proving his to permit a visit to the Prime
When she Minister, recovering from an illness us teled, came on the wire, both of the less probably the year's biggest beliefs were right by operating twu
unsuccessfully, to be very achievement on celluloid.
of them on the Berlin air-lift with 50 severe that
in casual about the whole thing than | LEIGH, and the Old Vic Company his wife. was
It By taking his wife, VIVIEN complete suCCCES. attendance. This was my first meet- was our first fall in more
WILF MANNION, for trying to thirteen months. A lot had happened along the dusty railroads of Australia smash the slave-market in footbal- charming, perfectly delightful, a between December of 1942, when wonderful wife to a wonderful man. left England, and this day, January of the world that the London thea-
he has helped to tell the other side Jers I also liked their daughter Sarah 14, 1944, the day of my return. Dlek, tre still survives the trash which Oliver, then an officer in the WAAF the torpedoing. Algiers, Tunisia, occupies most of its
stages.
ing with Mrs Church; she was thirt
Invitation
FOR GIRLS, readers say, it is around 13 to 14. One reason: "They
fruit." no longer think a date is
Hickey's cholec, from 16-year-old. ALMA FLEMING, Lowfeld-terrace, Walker Estate, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
I'm The now Ageing but still Tertible speaking of herself: "Because Twins of Literature (a) GRAHAM too old for lollipops, too young for in- lunch with President
and
EVELYN A film and boy friends, but old Roosevelt,
(b) cluded me in their
enough to look after baby brother. For the hunger for new, faces in GREENE Palestine, Luxor. General Eisenhower to
to stay for an Italy....I.
Sic both the London theatre, and the WAUGH (0) for so skilfully build- intimate Christmas party. Ellen, that brief telephone conversation. Ruthmann,,
There have been to few. (How out of a theme he has worked so SHOE repairer's shop WAC a
djeliton Riding Into the city, I was that
(b) for making the overseeing the, Churchill meals at happiest of Britonsa
Londoner many of the "promising starlets" of often before;
Jar of nails. Passers-by. Ike' suggestion, was preparing & coming home. Only a true Londoner 1947 sec 1549 go out and still re- Americans pay heavily, to read a Humpton Wick, Middlesex, spot-
Jampoon of, their own (anyway, lights a Itscious feast to be topped by can appreciate the emotion.
The main "promising staricts"?)
are asked to California's) ettitude to Death.
guess "How many? champagne.
It seems like capital was Just as scarred
The best was nearly the youngest
And HR STANLEY..... But the General smashed those ever; it looked dmb
exactly, thea nine-year-old named BOBBY after
so für has sustands, but no one Is the same with controls in dreams by instating that he couldn't colour of stay over any longer.
Marrakech-but Cairo, Capri, and Į HENREX, who deserves more credit
STORM. in a paint-pot Dritali today. This week, when it was London.
asked to AT 2.30, 5.20.
The P.M. accompanied us to the Next morning. Mattle and for the success of "The Fallen Idol." is, blowing up between the Royal the Board of Trauc was JOOT coming out on
Even in science it has been a year Academy and the Tate Gallery-and guess, an official said: "We just the steps stopped outside into a damp, gray,
of consolidation. Ono man, however, the Government In his bathrobe 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. dressed
and his blurred world.
may have to be can't say old man. There must Initialled lippers. An alert photo- "Now you're seeing the grand-whose name will be famous five called in before things get rough. bo thousands."
Finally he unearthed a man who graphier caught him in this bars- father of all fogs,"I told Mattle, years from now is Mr IIYDE CON-
took little STANT. He
over the jet The trouble is to decide that sort town mood, in a photo I still cherish, who was bewildered and ai
was bound to know" But he didn't; "See you in London, Kay" he frightened. "This is a pen-souper, research Job where. BIT FRANK of pictures £2,250 a year (interest His name: G. R. MERRIMAN, His shouted.
a real London pea-souper!"
WHITTLE left off.
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