| Show by delos wheeler lovelace consolidated features release NEW trew YORK some years ago a i few vice presidents were whooping it up in the general electric companas comp anys camp in ontario when one of the everything seems p boys sug to come out all ser right with reed e the president so they toted their eyedropper eye dropper piano close to the imperial tent and roared hail hail the gangs all here into gerard swope s ear the piano player was philip dunham reed who next day wrote his folks in wisconsin his regret that he ever had taken a lesson but everything came out all right in a few years swope was gone and reed was chairman of the board now at 44 reed is taking over the united states mission for economic affairs in london as W averell harriman moves on to our ambassadorial sa mansion in moscow reed figured first to be an engineer studied at the university of wisconsin but he switched to law at Ford fordham harn and that came out all right soon he was earn ing a jear year in new york although he had a wife son and daughter he boldly resigned to take a year in the law department of general electric and that came out all right too it led to that chairmanship of the board he resigned to work under harriman whom be succeeds and aad nowadays he even worry about when to have his hair cut his secretary tells him and he marches obediently to a barber properly trimmed he is tall with an air so handsome it is easy to believe he had a big part in a class play at wisconsin along side fred M bickel known now on broadway as frederic march A A MONG the waitresses in the alx lx most crowded service canteen in washington is a slender matron with lively blue eyes and a dark curly bang ike has been n her who 0 o career since she look her 46 was but eighteen years not by quite a few of em she will admit though freely that she has a son 21 years old her only son in west point her husband has been overseas for 15 months why she gives all the time she can to the canteen and to red cross work it is mrs ike eisenhower Elsen hower speaking she first met ike when she was but 18 she was maimie doud a doctors daughter of denver colo with her parents she visited an army camp in texas at the officers mess she met the future allied commander in the mediterranean area he talked her out of a date she had in town talked her into becoming engaged two months later ashes been seeing to it that his uniforms were pressed ever since until june of 0 last year at fort meyer va pictures of him are found at every turn in the suburban washington apartment where she waits for him to come home the one on the piano came from north africa there is a complete scrap book of his doings too their home used to be known as the club eisenhower she is hospitable and friendly she strikes up friendships with butchers bakers and neighbors especially when like herself they are waiting for someone to come home her ancestors fought in the civil and revolutionary wars and she knows how their wives felt FOO STUFFS in britain are so well distributed that although quantities are far below normal britain is better fed than before the n t i hores heres a bachelor ing to wil y chos done good liam ma job on I 1 foodstuffs stuffs bane parliamentary lia secretary to the ministry of food under lord woolton boolton Wo olton mabane can certainly take part of the credit and it seem strange to him that a bachelor like himself should do a good job with anything pertaining r to food he believes that men can women every time but that this is no reason why some women should cook so badly tall thin gray blond and saturnine mabane has been an MF ALP since 1931 his voice with its yorkshire accent is often lifted on food topics it was he who startled the treasury benches during a report on the point system of rationing by quoting marie lloyd A little ol of what you yon F fancy ancy does you yon good |
