Show by delos wheeler lovelace consolidated rea features reatar tur release I 1 ina N EW YORK A little more than a year ago on a cold wet night a transport was making ready at the dock a parked cai car waited when the ship mrs airs patton gives s slipped I 1 i p p e d and follows her away at 3 a m the own prescription car was still there the last thing george S patton jr the commanding general saw as he left for a secret rendezvous in africa his wife he knew waited inside the car now mrs patton broadcasts over short wave to the women of france announcing herself as the wife of a man in the service she has earned laurels at that job since the day in 1940 when boston socialite beatrice ayer of the american woolen company ayers married a hell bell for leather young cavalry lieutenant beatrice ayer patton likes the army in no other career except the ministry she says can a wife be so helpful when her bright eyed roaring general used to give his men those famous pep talks she listened on the sidelines to report reactions at at dinner parties she sometimes reads aloud from the poems the general so surprisingly writes she herself had authored a best selling novel blood of the sharks and a volume of hawaiian legends she and the general like to cruise in their 60 f oot foot schooner the if and when they like to ride their old farmhouse at hamilton mass is full of horse show ribbons one son is in west point two daughters are married into the army mrs airs patton advises army wives not to listen to rumors to write cheerful letters and to keep busy with war work 0 australians A australians grumbling cheer chee r fully under their wartime scar cities often turn a critical eye toward distant scotland scotland n j r gave them dedman Is our john jn john bowles and 1 ickes ekes stone ded rolled into one g man and dedman has given them so many broad scotch nos they wonder how he can have any left dedman is minister for war organization of industry more afore than any other of prime minister curtins aids he has nailed down the commonwealths austerity program but he has also managed to preserve the fabric of civilian industry and this is true even though he has reduced all industry eliminated many nonessential non essential plants and put enough australians to equal americans on a population basis into direct war work when the first world war started dedman was studying at edinburg university and figured to teach engineering gi he got to gallipoli egypt iraq india france was wounded invented a rifle grenade won a captaincy and afterward shipped to australia figuring to be a farmer but shortly he was in politics up to his neck he organized the milk producers of victoria became a leading laborite and a member of parliament nowadays to help in his tough job he studies economics at melbourne university keeps healthy by rowing walking and riding THOSE THOSE russian divorce rules though tempered do not bring out the darby and joan in every pair but the litvinoff Litvin offs s keep comfort ably vm ur r i j Y er no mat but the ter where remain together they ride on the soviets diplomatic seesaw see saw there she goes out of warm washington to rejoin her maxim in moscow which this winter is certain to be colder than a january corn shock the trip is necessary because of his unexpected transfer from the red plush embassy back into the foreign ministry when ivy low married her london friends were full of tell achs her father and a couple ot of titled uncles were good journalists her mother too had a name naine as a writer moreover there was a cousin destined to marry anthony eden no less but litvinoff was a bard pressed refugee from the czars azars beagles no more that was in 1916 in 1929 his friends were tell tell telling I 1 he was then as now a red sachem she was suspected of bourgeois taints his adherents told him to cast off but he only turned his diplomatic ear |