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HE-day before Christmins I was in on the murder of a tradition, even stiffer than that of West Point or Sandhurst-the WAC's and 1 | rodo aboard a Navy destroyer.

nt sen.

The ship was going to Capri, carrying General Elsenhower øver for an

Inspection tour, Scinthow managing to shatter this oldest of Navy regulations, he wrangled

Invitations for us females. Luckily,

・With

MY BOSS

By KAY SUMMERSBY

On the flight to Algiera I cursed he chose a gorgeous afternoon filled General Eisenhower most disloyally, bright sunshine and a cor if silently Our Christmas dinner brezze, the one clear day we saw consisted of a cold, tasteless, de- during our entire visit in Italy. Yet, pressing Army K-ration secing Capri itself, it seemed im possible that the weather, could be other than lovely, for the place is surely one of the most beautiful We toured the famed resort in jeans, captivated by the Indescribable colour, the luxurious • air of semi- troplent letture, and the attractive, gay little villas.

That night, I had my doubts.

I coaxed the Packard down to Addison Rond Station, the same place from wh'ch General Elsenhower left for North Africa.

General Iko looked very well indeed, re- freshed by his visit home.

corner.

This was

The author being decorated by Princo Bornhard of the Netherlands,

Jimmy Gault then 'directed me down to- more than a fuzzy spo! high up in

It was, too. The sun was Httle wards Berkeley Square, the dark fog.

to Chesterfeld the office with night-time strength. a dim building on

All lights blazed at where we stopped before Everything was topsy-turvy, being made ready for tho General's my's pride and E.

rival

Lodge, an attractive and nicely furnished town house which WOS to

10 serve as I, for the first time, had a corner General's home and head in which to start whittling down the quarters in the city. It was surprisingly, largo.plio of "fan mall,” pleasant, after the fog, to step inside already beginning to split almost and collapse lato the plush chairs. equally into letters from Americans General ike inspected the upstairs and those from Britishers. The was and

basement and

then

busy assembling his staff handing announced. to lifs Military Assiatant's out

assignments and. catisfaction, that he liked it very reacquainted with pre-Torch friends, getling much. "But I'd still rather live in from headquarters guards right up Telegraph Collage, out of town," he to the King of England. He made said wistfully.

first friendly

call upon Majesty, several days later, and was rather touched when the King asked (Continued en Pazo (3)

Headquarters, was split into two distinct camps-thu happy alatt members slated to go to London with "The Boss is coming in tonight, 1bb General, and the down-in-the- Tex explained. "Fog's to bad that mouth staying to

Wis pleased to learn that all on the Prestwick. Gault's up there with a household slaff · and

the official special tenlui Ha looked ques family were coming along, including tioningly at me. "They're due in Aisttle Pinette, one of the original about 11 p.m. Kay. Sure you con five WAC officers, now assigned to drive through this fog-or will it lift Generat Elsenhower, however, our office for the first ume.

"by .then?" spotted a villa which wasn't exactly

the canio time, poor Butch again. miniature. "Whose is that?"

the Fuffered

razo asked, pointing. "Yours,

Sir" the reply. The General' reddened,

He walked in one day and When nodded then

at another hour

house, so sented Ike with that painting from fabulous It appeared on loan

from

tho Naples villa. Instead of em- Hollywood. "And that?" "That one barrassed appreciation,

Dutch ro- our ceived a warning stare. answered. ke

"How did about

"Just cut li out from the frame,"

belongs to tener e

At

was wrath for breaking wer

pre-

everal

others, before erupting: You get that?" General Ike asked. it, that's not my villa! And Dutch sa'd; bewildered. Looting, in that's not General Spaatz' villa! one form or another, was so wide- None of those will belong to any spread among the armles that it general as long as I'm boss around failed to.httract attention any more. here. This is supposed to be a rest Butch probably hadn't done any- centre for combat men-not a play thing more than obey an impulse; ground for the Brassf

he knew the General liked the painting, so he sliced it out without further thought,

The villas were decommissioned within hours after we left, reserved for the men who really needed them.

Christmas Eve

FTER a quick lunch at Red Cross A headquarters and a visit to the picturesque, cliff-bordered villa of Axel Munthe, the famous author, we headed back to the destroyer and to Naples.

But General Ilo didn't give him Ume for an explanation. "You prob- ably meant well" he yelled, "but I 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 os foon

as you can?"

I laughed. "Luft? This is a pea Rouper, Tex. It'll be worse. by to- night.

if anything. But I should know London well enough to drive Il blind-folded. which is what it will amount to."

the

Within the week, we were settled into the same old 20 Grosvenor Square offices left behind in 1942.

bla

William Hickey

In the medical laboratories thora

1948...

was the year when rewards

went to those best able to hit back

IIIK.

Back To England IT HAS been a bruis- has been nothing like "peniellin," but the pictures are then handed to

his

FELT sorry for Butch, who had the same expression as n toment startled by the expression on master's face when he brings in a very dead mouse.

On the last day of 1943, General Eisenhower departed for the United

[Ic left behind a headquar

The Intter

States

The people who came through best were the people who ston!, their ground after a smack in the eye.

The money is spent by the RA,

shown 12

That night way Christmas Eve. We all gathered at the: General's

ing year- bruising to Top development is largely to the the Tate. villa just outside the city, in a

credit of Mr LESTER SMITH, whose But the Tate dislike the selection dreamy location overlooking the

pockets and to prestige.

now discoveries, in blood research so much that, out of 330 pictures look, like Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius.

leading directly Thera

to the bought for £145,000 in the last 78. bravely

cure of pernicious anaemia. was a small tree, decorated with

have only objects which

years, they A blank year in radio, Included strings of popcorn supplied

(and a bust by Epstein). "Old steadles" continuo "old It 18 a battle betweer tastes. by Butch for communal popping. We gave each other silly things, Just with the sounds of moving by? By ine achievements, by mur- commentator now broadcasting from likes the.

SIR ALFRED· steadies." The one new voice is Seventy-year-old For what do you remember a man JOHN

MUNNINGS, ARLOTT to keep the Yuletida spirit alive.

Olymple Games

president of the R.A General iku gave Roman coins to and farewells.

so-called

"popular" erodering his wife, by his personality? South Africa brief unusually

and.

the M.C.C. tures that tell a story, Imaginative and expensive present heart to gloat over the stay-behinds. dimculties he overcame, by what the get out into the sun, all his "house" family. My own us who were leaving didn't have the By these yes; but also by something tricket

His

Tato

director JOHN to the Bossa plain white handker who slipped through the halls with

more--by what he attempted, the bribit-bee voice makes you want to ROTHENSTEIN (40) , champions

what he considers subtler works. funereal glosti. I was glad when our time came to leave.

Rothenstein's newest Etrategy is to ask Munnings to hold an exhibi- tion of the entire picture-purchase.. He counts on the intellectuals laugh-

chief.

outside

was a

wero

quiet; those of

Americans call "guttiness."

For

with

The Generui seemed relaxed and

Television moves into its first big comparatively happy, although as

a long time. beyond. 1048 Ume Christmas-without uny star in homesick as all of us; it

Our last stop in North Africa was

men will remember TRUMAN for the eles of New York's MILTON makeshift, make-do Christmas for Marrakech. It couldn't have been

that reason the year's No. 1 DERLE. everyone there, from four-star n lovelier spot in which to leave both fitter-Back. And with his me The Bot-very-near nearest 19 general to Gr

waiter, from Red tragic and hoppy memories.

must go GEORGE MARSHALL, his JOAN GILBERT of "Picture Pare," Cross girl to civilian driver. If Marrakech gave us a pleasant-health and fatigue is change

Secretary of State, who has fought to many eyes an irritating woman→→ wandered

and enjoyed the farewell, General Eisenhower's new story of Europe. For the past 12 British television star.

the 'nevertheless the closest thing to a view of the rainy city, thinking of B-17 promised a nige trip. all the dirt and dainago underneath, new and smarily decorated in rich changes in world power-polities: In Brand- months have seen only two major all the death and despair; I thought leather, this Flying Fort offered the the East the crumble of a lunch

we ate in a restaurant last word in aerial luxury--a Com-China; in the West the operation of of. Chiang's where Caruso sang, a lunch sabo- fort Station. inged by heart-breaking sight of

o

even a

the Marshall Plan.]

Hero In London the choice harder. DEVINT CRIFFST PRIME MINISTER?

"Eveni HARTLEY “BITAWCROSS

Despite the new fear of German ragged Italians digging in the slop

fighters from Europe; the trip North and refuse for eve shred of

was smooth, fast and uneventful. palatable food. Perhaps that was

As our plane-dropped-on-to-an why" Genera! ~~Ikea so admired the

American base in southern England,for him painting in his living. rupm, vivid view of the bay, the city, and yelled: "Look!

Suc

pointed out the window and Vesuvius a view now banished to omcer!"

There's a Russian tourists' memories, a view never to be seen again. Going back into the

She was villa, I took another look at that pleture and knew why the General

to liked it so much. Soon afterwards, the party broke up.

Two Camps

ROUND nine o'clock the next Amorning we flew to Tunis, Gene- ral Eisenhower happy with his nicest Christmas present-President Roose velt's official radio announcement that Ike would lead the invasion forces on to Europe.

BUT

with all the disap

sense of staleness, there have been

ing them back to the cellars.

" pointments, the mediocrity, to SHO

FIELD thinks his stage-

tu also the cheerful fashes, 1948 re- sketch as a snooker tyro has dam- The membered many men for many aged his market value. In London's Albany Club Christmas sacoker reasons. Women, too:

handicap In...which players are GRACIE "FIELDS, for turning-a-

a year of lovely lime perfect cartwheel at the age of 50, auctioned to other members-Sid was

1948

and in so doing (along with other talents] proving that a British musie hall rtist can still pack the Fal- Jadium.

INGRID BERGMAN, for halting a procession of disillusionment by proving even pleasanter in the flesh than on celluloid.

knocked down for £135. Td fetch. more as horse-flesh," said Sid.

•win- Whoever bought the contest I looked and laughed.

ner stood to win all the other bids. pointing to an ankle-length gray

Other famous names featured in the this time totalling about £3,000. overcoat which could only belong Scots Guards. And the man inside an officer of the crack, legendary

bargain basement: ARTHUR, AS. KEY'S chance of winning was. that overcoat was about as Russian light. - would need

DR EDITH SUMMERSKILL, for reckoned at £18; JACK BYLTON

three got as the House of Lords-Lieutenant- stamina, suavity, and self-confi- keeping the loyalty of a husband she £30; TEDDY KNOX fetched £100. quick nods, and went for Colonel Jimmy Gault, General Elsenhower's Military. Assistant.

dence to plead the proposition that feeds on snock

CG FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, End Dyslerman DICK BENTLEY. Bookmakers favourite was West 1048 had brought new glory to the-

for the

Title: The Tho prize for winning 15, "only" year's addest Socialist leaders.

racing housewife,"

THE

Blurred World

AWAY next and last stop

was

Bovington Airport, where, walle Tex and the girls tried to hide our Moroccan fruit from awed station personnel,. I telephoned my mother.

more

Ihan

"Hamlet," criticised by many as "not lieved in the Bilish-built Tudor MOST awkward

nge

for

Air Vice-Marshal DONALD BEN- about £300, so players may buy from politics, too, NETT, 37-year-old Chief Executive back from bidders a half-share in the record takes up little space. of British South American Airways themselves. Sid Field has risked it.

There is OLIVIER, of course. His ...for losing his job because he be- The Tunis stop was made in order to permit a visit to the Prime When she came on the wire, both of the lean probably the year's biggest beliefs were right by operating two children?

film in the pure sense is none IV. airliner; and then proving his Minister, recovering from an illness us tried, unsuccessfully, to be very achievement on celluloid.

that his wife was to severe

Casual about the whole thing. It By taking hia attendance. This was my first meet was our first talk in more Ing with Mrs Churchill: she was charming, perfectly delightful, between December of 1942, when he has helped to tell the other side lers. wonderful wife to a wonderful mail. left England, and this day, January of the world that the London thea- I also liked their daughter Sarah 14, 1944, the day of my return. Dick, tre still survives the Oliver, then an officer in the WAAF.

Algiers, the torpedoing. I was flattered when they in- lunch with

me in their invitation 10 Cairo,

of them on the Berlin air-lift with-

wife, VIVIEN complete success.

thirteen months. A lot had happened along the dusty railroads of Australla. smash the slave-market in footial-

than LEIGH, and the Old Vic Company WILF MANNION, for frying to no longer think a date is

*

FOR GIRLS, renders say, it i around 13 to 14. One reason "They

fruit.". Hickey's cholec, from 45-year-old... ALMA FLEMING, Lowfield-terrace, Walker Estate, Newcastle-on-Tyne, The now Ageing but still Terrible speaking of herself; "Because I'm trach which Tunisia,

Twins of Literature (a) GRAHAM too old for lollipops, too young for most of its occupies

stages. President Roosevelt,

and (b) EVELYN Alm and boy friends, but oid: For the hunger for new faces in GREENE Palestine Belly, both the London theatre and the WAUGH-(a) for so skilfully build encugt, to look after baby, brother," to cram

all into intimate Christmas party. Ellen that brief telephone conversation

film studios now amounts to famine. Ing the year's intelligent best-seller.

n theme he has worked so SHOE repairer's shop Ruthmann,

WAC

There have been so, few. (How out of dietitian

Fuding into the city, 1 WAS

that the Churchill meals at hupplest overseeing the

of Britons-a

Londoner many of the "promising starlets" of often before; (b) for making the. Ike's suggestion, was preparing

of Jampoon

(anyway, lights a California's) rttitude to Death.

And, MR STANLEY....

Eisenhower to stay for an Italy...

R

Luxor, ....I tried to

their own coming home. Only a true Londoner 1047 sec 1948 go out and still re- Americans pay heavily to read a lampion Wick. luscious feast to be topped by can appreciate the emotion. The main promising starlets")

¥

as

than

`Marrakech, Cairo, Capri, and HENKEY, who deserves more credit

SIR RALPH RICHARDSON STORM a paint-pol Beltain Mattle and.. Il for the succem of "The Fallen 1er Academy and the Tate Gallery-and guest,

Ire.

Middlesex..spot- nails. Passers-by- Jar of are asked to guess "How many?" champagne..

Capital was just as scarred

The best was nearly, the youngest

It seems like thousands, but no one But the General smashed those

It looked drab ever

after the nine-year-old named BOBBY

so far has quessed exnetly, dreams by insisting that he couldn't colour of

It is the same with controls

in stay

it was London. over any longer.

today. This week, when metatag. The P.M. accompanied us to the

in blowing up between the Royal the Board of Trade was asked to Next door, coming out on

cald: an oficial the steps stepped outside into a damp, gray,

"We just must dressed in his bathrobe and his blurrell, worlds

of consolidation. Che man, liowever, the Goverment may have to be can't say. old man. There Initialled slippers. An alert photo- "Now you're seeing the grand-whose name will be famous five called in before things get rough.

be thousands." grapher caught him in this bars- father of all logs, I told Mattle, Years from now is Mr HYDE CON

Finally, he unearthed "a man who down mood, in a photo I still cherish, who was bewildered and a tulo STANT. He look over. the jet The trouble la to decido that sort was bound to know" But he didn't. SIR FRANK of plctures £2,250 a year (interest is name: G. R., MERRIMAN, His "See you in London, Kay!" he frightened, This Is a pea-souper, research job whore shouted.

a real London pea souper!".

WHITTLE left. of...

on the Chantrey Bequest) shall buy, title: Controller of Controls.

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