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C. V. R. THOMPSON REPORTS THE AMERICAN SCENE

THE GIFTS GET AWAY

NEW YORK,

I won't be America's fault if all the 300,000

Christmas parcels which Americans have already posted to their friends in Britain do not. rench there in time.

Shipping and postal officials in New York sold that by the week-end every package held up by the dock ́strike will be on its way.

already shipped.

Nanrly, half of them are

The Post Offee, with 140,000 parecis on its hands, did not wait for the Queens. It put most of them on three fast freighters which are now halfway across the Atlantic.

BRITAIN TODAY, us viewed by Dr. Morris Fishbein.

A

America's chief opponent of socialised medicine- "It's a heaven for hypochondriace and a hell for doctors." GIVE-AWAY radio; programme telephoned Mrs. A. H. Moeller, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and promised. her £8,000 worth of prizes If she could name, a mystery. Konj She named it correctly, but there was no answer from the studio. Sho went on naming it, but there was still silence from the other, end, Then the operator came on, and said: "I'm sorry, but you've been dis- connected." Someone else got the prize.

BESS TRUMAN: AMERICA'S

RELUCTANT FIRST LADY

Mrs Truman (waving) photographed on a campaign tour with the President and their daughter Margaret.

By DOUGLAS LARSEN

In

A few of us who are real old as the famous headgear of -Eng friends of Buss get together land's Queen Mary.

Mrs Truman once a month and try out a only person she is interested

resents this criticism. She says the different place to ent. Of course, we all go Dutch treat. Bess savs it gives her a chance to relax. You see, none of us are in the social register."

pleasing with her hats is her hus- band. Contrary to his own taste in hais, he likes to have his wife stick to simple millinery.

in supervising the housekeeping of the White House, friends say Mrs Mrs Truman apparently has never Truman demands the same meticu- ught on to the trick of relaxing lous housekeeping she maintained tke her husband does while per- in her modest home In Indehen- forming social duties. At all but dence. small, intimate gatherings of close friends her attitude appears to be One of stolid determinallen to see i1 through. The

thousands of

1. Boss Truman is far from a house- Americans who saw her on back- platform

'hold tyrant, however,

appearances

Ind

PRIVATE

SOLDIERS will sit alongside generals at military courts martial, under an order sign- ed by President Truman.

IN THE

BOOK STORES this

Christmas there is a grand race between two books, of war memoirs for top sales pince-Robert Sher- wood's "The White House Papers of Harry Hopkins," and General Eisen- hower's "Crusade in Europe." To the trade's surprise, the 1topkins book is winning.

For

years, sales iti that great

OR THE FIRST month in three

store, fell off one percent. In Novem Amerien institution, the ten-cent. ber.

IN FOOD MARKETS eggs have

dropped to their lowest price of butchers lopped another 3d. a lb. off the year. 38. Bla cozen, and

most meat.

:

EN ATLANTA, Georgia, renders got a surprise when they looked their local newspaper's

at the other day.

city pager were there but they were printed on The stock prices top of an advertisement în pale blue ink for an air line. It was not mistake, but a new process to save

which Americans space,

think

is cramped because of the newsprint shortage..... The White

SPACENOTE: Tadiny's Atlanta Constitution has 30 pages.

NO TYRANT

campalgo noticed this, Towards the House staff has a deep affection and They were end she was learning a little more reat respect for her. natural smile when she was intro more overjoyed than anyone about

Truman's victory, duced But the

thing that only could crack

A porter gald; her stiff pose while

"We sure are glad to keep Mrs listening to the President's speeches Truman here. She's a wonderful the audience, "give 'em hell, Harry." was the frequent loud yell from Indy to work, for." She always laughed heartily at this.

it

AN OPTIMIST is Robert Dana, u writer of gourmets' guidebooks. He is leaving America for the, out- alde hungry world shortly to look for the world's most perfect meal,

TILL Bess Truman go gave a good insight into the down in U.S. history as First Lady's attitude towards

As far as running the White HOW BUSINESS: In futile at "The Reluctant First her, official duties. A society

House stpit is concerned, Mrs Tru- tempi to bring back the old Lady?"

reporter discovered that she voked her as far as her personal the Mrs Truman who insists on buy mink-covered

Only one thing has really pro- man quickly last her shyness. But days, Hollywood is being asked to Many of her friends think hind lunched with several other renation to White House life goes, sparkling windows is different from Robert

telephones. Indies at some obscure restau- . good friend tells. It's the gossip the Mrs Truman that she will.

Sherwood, the Hopkins who greets the diaries editor, is now busy WEIUNK It was generally believed that rant. The reporter found the that has got back to her about the ometals and diplomats at formal a musical comedy called "Miss the long delay in announcing woman who had arranged the

receptions. The former is woman Liberty".... Harold Lloyd with tour who likes and understands a job. every American city next year, not the plans for the strenuous party, and got this reply:

Washington fashion The latter is a woman who believes as a comedian, but as on official of White House winter social "I'm sorry you found out writers and society women il is that the most satisfactory, social on American secret society.....A

was because Mrs Tru- about it. We've been keeping Truman's hats defy

n standerd gag that Mre function is a meeting of the Tues- film is being made on the Florida man did not want to appear it a secret for a couple of years. Vagary of fashion almost as much in Independence, Missouri.

current day afternoon women's bridge club estate of Al Capone while 4

Capone is still living there, presumptuous before the elce-

Reason

tion. Her close friends, and members of the White House

hats she wenra,

Among

oimest

the

staff knew better. The delay THIS CHARMER FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

was mostly feminine proerns- tination towards an unpleasant task.

THE

a

REBECCA WEST

of

by the tiresome preoccupation the inquiry with its purpose,

There was the case over the un- fortunate contretemps at Margate Mrs Belcher had, socording to Mr

analyses the magic Stanley, informed him that her hus

of the amazing

· con- im-

surprises

band was going to the Socialist Party Conference, and that she would liko to go, too, for a rest and take the Three children.

1

Mr Stanley had then asked the family to stay with him, at hle furnished house at Margate:

Mra

on what London has given him as the framework of existence, and the effect is astonishing. When he uses. such phrases as "the company then opened a factory" or "the Govern- ment then placed a contract" it is' as it he said, "when the magic patace rose from the sands of the desert" or then the Sultan Haroun-al- Raselid opened his treasury."

Colonel George salit In -his evidence that Mr Stanley, was

not. conversant with, the more elaborate procedures of business.

What is certain is that he brought n peculiarly exotic

When he went home, however, this hospitable impulse was ill-received by Mrs Stanley: she for whom the to business tallor in South Audley Street made romanticism., Ho was always will the mative outfit, she who went to Ing to follow the call of adventuro America to buy steel. The nature when he saw the white band of an of this recention wa exquisitely important licence. waving from the evoked by Mr. Stanley..

lotficed window, or a new-com-' pany being borne through the streets in a silken palanquin to the

HE appearance of Sidney Nobody who knows her would Stanley, of Park Lane, in suggest that her heart was the witness-box at the Lynskey filled with anything but burst- Inquiry has cleared up. A ing pride at the news of her mystery which has been puz- husband's sensational personal zling many people. victory. But they say, too, that Why they have asked, did somewhere down inside was a

number of public figures and busi- small selfish feeling of dismay friends within a fairly wide circle.

ness men, who could plek their MR STANLEY at the prospect of four more choose to frequent the society of

Mr Stanley. years of endless, stuffy teas, tortuous hours on aching feet. He does not possess conventional-

have kept the in a reception line, uncomfort good looks. though it must be ad- bazaar. He coul

mitted that he clusely

yarn spinning through the long, hot able, stiff state dinners, and mo

resembles mony statues

carved by Henry sleep.

Asiatic night when nobody can the constant strain of life in Moore. It would not be surprising the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to find him taking the rough with He loves the story-teller's fish bowl

the smooth of the weather in Bat- diment, surprise. He has the tersea Park under the aegis of the passive face which the born story- Arts Council.

teller wears' to make his Swinging like a trapeze artist truly surprising. from chrove to cheque, he can have had little time. to come town

First of all one has to get the au- earth and cultivate other interests.

dience's car.

Simply he reported, "My wife said, river for the purpose, of its In the bazaar some-

You're mad,and flung out his flotation.**. to Bess it would have meant who have suspected that there were fere the Tribunal have been ful-

There have been those, therefore,

one would bang on a drum or tootle

flute in the market-place. that moment transformed into a urms behind him. But he was for on the

He can understand other parts the simple pleasure of cooking perhaps mercenary reasons which

the Arabian Nights also. These were flap-jucks for the "boss" instead led politicians and business men to

queenly housewife, Justly infuriated these long, funny stories which cori- Alling a like function. of an occasional hurried break- spend In Mr Stanley's company what, and had to make his way along the

When he was colled as a

by a slightly smaller husband who cerned the doings of barbers and has brought his male lack of com millers and people oddly called fust with him. It would have may have amounted in some

mon sense into the sphere which is benches, while the court gave that her province. It was good eternal tumbling

calendars who rushed about Bagdad meant a pleasant visit or call to to much of their waking lite..

buzz which means that. It expects to comedy,

in and out of luxury caravanseral and giving each other Roger Sermon, the grocer and

seg, someoria, rather larger than life, nuyor of Independence, Mis-

cheques like mad and sometimes gel. The was, of course, partly given over He was brought up, he told us, in ting beaten. to a peony

Stoke souri, Instead of a two-hour Mr Stanley as he sat in court have. He is as nervous as a hare. But practitioner of the bizarre, Edgar Through the Bagdad of the Arabian

Newington: as was Another from time la, time had intimations also he breathed in the, excitement Allan Pue, who was at school there. Nights Haroun-al-Raschid - went in conference with a secretary.that there were other reasons; and through his curious flat. nostrils, and Before that there was Poland."

But life was its laws everywhere. housekeepor and chef.

tyhen he went into the witness-box found literal inspiration, Just, before she started cain these intimations were confirmed. So we sat listening, enchanted by paign Junketing with the Presi- an exotic sort. He was born to

Mr Stanley le a natural charmer his narrative power. dent an incident occurred whilch ben story-teller in an

At times we were cruelly' dividen. Eastern from the source of our satisfaction

SIMPLE PLEASURE Defeat would have been a bitter pill to the President. But

.tn

cases

Bot those of us who have watched

witnes*

+

1

public

no place but a book, being out of night's play threatened the founda

But truly this man comes from "search of adventure, but when the the pages of The Arubian Nights. tions of daily life he used the whips

He has brought the fantasy and of justice. the extravagance of the East to play

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