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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. TEW YORK. Some years ago a L few vice presidents were whooping whoop-ing it up in the General Electric company's camp in Ontario when r. P one of the Everything Seems boya sug. To Come Out All gested ser- Right With Reed enadf8 0 president. So they toted their eyedropper piano close to the imperial tent and roared: "Hail, hail, the gang's 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 chair-man 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 ambas-sadorial mansion In Moscow. Reed figured first to be an engineer, en-gineer, studied at the University of Wisconsin, but he switched to law at Fordham and that came out all right. Soon he was earning earn-ing $12,000 a year in New York. Although he had a wife, son and daughter, he boldly resigned to take $1,500 a year in the law department of General Electric, and tli at came out all right, too. It led to that chairmanship of the board. He resigned to work under Harriman whom he succeeds suc-ceeds and nowadays he doesn't 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. AMONG the waitresses in the most crowded service canteen in Washington is a slender matron with lively blue eyes and a dark curly bang Ike Has Been Her wno doesn't Career Since She look her 46 Was but Eighteen yef ' 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. That's why she gives all the time she can to the canteen and to Red Cross work. It is Mrs. Ike Eisenhower speaking. She first met Ike when she was but 18. She was Malmie Doud, a doctor's daughter, of Denver, Colo. With her parents she visited vis-ited an army camp in Texas. At the officers' mess, she met the future Allied commander in the Mediterranean area. lie talked her out of a date she had in town, talked her Into becoming becom-ing engaged two months later. She's been seeing to it that his uniforms were pressed ever since, until June of 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 i. a complete scrap book of his doings too. Their home used to be knowr as the Club Eisenhower. She is hos pitable and friendly. She strikes up friendships with butchers, bakers and neighbors, especially when . . . like herself . . . they are waiting for someone some-one to come home. Her ancestors ances-tors fought in the Civil and, Revolutionary wars and she knows how their wives felt. FOOFSTUFFS in Britain are so well distributed that although quantities are far below normal, Britain is better fed than before the war.accord- Here's a Bachelor jng t0 wil-Who's wil-Who's Done Good Ham Ma- Job on Foodstuffs b a n e . p a r liamentary secretary to the ministry of food. Under Lord Woolton, Mabane can certainly take part of the credit, and It doesn't seem strange to him thai a bachelor like himself should do a good job with anything pertaining to food. He believes that men car outcook women every time, but thai this is no reason why some womer should cook so badly. Tall, thin, gray-blond and saturnine, sat-urnine, Mabane has been an M.P. since 1931. His voice with its Yorkshire accent is often lifted lift-ed on food topics. It was he who startled the treasury benches during a report on the point system sys-tem of rationing by quoting Marie Lloyd "A Little of What you Fancy docs you Good." He was not nourished by a familj of restaurateurs, but by the boot and 6hoe business, and took a fling al it himself after Cambridge univer sity where he was distinguished at a runner. There seems to be som connection there. In '.he First World war be foughi his way up to a captaincy and was wounded. He tried social service, and in 1929 worked his way arounc the globe, visiting the United State which he has since revisited, H likes to travel, golf, ski and plaj "fox and geese" on a checkerboard He likes to garden, too. |