The Look of Yesterday

Out of the President's secret swing around the U.S. (see p. 16) came Roosevelt family pictures of a kind rare since 1940, warmly reminiscent of the peacetime past. The President's transcontinental reunions included one near San Diego (top), with son John & wife, daughter-in-law Romelle (Mrs. James), daughter Anna & her husband John Boettiger; another at son Elliott's Fort Worth ranch (bottom), with daughter-in-law Ruth (Mrs. Elliott) & son Elliott Jr., 6, daughter Chandler, 8, baby David.

Women's Work

Beautifully blonde Madeleine Carroll, who gave up the cinema for Sterling Hayden, who gave up the cinema to live on his sailboat, went to work for the United Seamen's Service as director of entertainment for all the merchant mariners' clubs and rest homes. Her office hours in Manhattan: 9 to 5 every day. Hayden is now master of a schooner carrying war cargoes. Ace Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, St. Louis baseball fan, was ordered by her operatic coach to stay away from all the World Series games to keep her from ruining her voice by cheering. For the first time in a blue moon Blues Moaner Libby Holman is slated to sing in a Manhattan nightclub--ten years after the fatal shooting of her tobacco-rich husband Zachary Smith Reynolds. Again from Berlin came news that a dancer had found a hot corner in the impressionable heart of Adolf Hitler. Known professionally as La Jana, she was described as a former friend of the ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm. She is 32, dark-haired, olive-skinned, cat-curved, and is the 18th woman to be dubbed "special friend" of the fickle Fuehrer. Out of their jobs at Philadelphia's Stage Door Canteen marched Jane Kendall Mason Hamilton, famed Washington glamor deb of 1927, and her husband, ex-Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. The trouble: wife Jane had disapproved 1) jitterbugging, 2) letting married women dance with the soldiers. Other canteen officers overruled her.

Aid for an Editor

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a check for $10,000 to Jap-tortured James Benjamin Powell, editor (until Pearl Harbor) of the China Weekly Review. His feet mutilated as a result of his mistreatment, the once-husky editor has been abed since he reached the U.S. in August. Into a fund originally intended simply to pay Powell's hospital expenses have already gone: $7,000 from the National Press Club; $3,000 from Chinese newsmen in China; $1,700 from the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan; more besides.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.