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Show Who's News This Week By Detos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release, NEW YORK. A little more than a year ago, on a cold wet night, a transport was making ready. At the dock a parked car waited. When the ship Mrs. Patton Gives slipped And Follows Her away at 3 Own Prescription arass there, the last thing George S. Pat-ton Pat-ton Jr., the commanding general, saw as he left for a secret rendezvous ren-dezvous 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 Aycr, of the American Woolen company Aycrs, married a hell-for-lcather young cavalry lieutenant. lieu-tenant. 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 dinner parties she sometimes reads aloud from the poems the general gen-eral so surprisingly writes. She herself had authored a best-selling novel, "Blood of the Sharks," and a volume of Hawaiian Ha-waiian legends. She and the general like to cruise iu their 60-foot schooner the If and When. They like to ride; their old farmhouse farm-house at Hamilton. Mass., is full of horse show ribbons. One son is In West Point; two daughters are married into the army. Mrs. Patton advises army wives not to listen to rumors, to write cheerful cheer-ful letters and to keep busy with war work. A USTRALIANS, grumbling cheer-fully cheer-fully under their wartime scarcities, scar-cities, often turn a critical eye toward distant Scotland. Scotland n . i r Save them Dedman Is Our John John. Bowles and I ekes stone Ded- Rolled Into One m jH a,"d 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 than any other of Prime Minister Min-ister Curtin's aids, he has nailed down the commonwealth's "austerity "aus-terity 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 non-essential plants and put enough Australians to equal 14,000,000 Americans on a population popu-lation basis into direct war work. When the First World war started, Dedman was studying at Edinburg university, and figured to teach engineering. en-gineering. 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 organ-ized 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. "pHOSE Kcssian divorce rules, though tempered, do not bring out the Darby and Joan in every pair, but the LitvinofTs keep comfort- uf ww , T t j ablytogeth-M ablytogeth-M any Have Tched er no mat. But the Litvinoffs ter where Remain Together they ride on the Soviets' diplomatic 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 unexpect-ed transfer from the red plush embassy em-bassy back into the foreign ministry. When Ivy Low married, her London friends were full of tch! tch! tehs! Her father and a couple of titled uncles were good journalists; her mother, too, had a name as a writer. Moreover there was a consin destined to marry Anthony Eden, eo less. But Litvinoff wa a hard-pressed refugee from the czar's beagles, no more. That was in 191f. In 1929 his friends were tch! tcM tching! 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 diplo-mallc diplo-mallc ear. And now Mrs. Litvinoff has left America to take up their kaleidoscopic kaleido-scopic life again, loaded down with Christmas ski boots, dolls and what not for their son and daughter and several grand-children. After 27 years her brown eyes are unchanged, but her black hair has whitened and her strong figure has grown well rather square. She is probably, squaring away for another detective story. She has always been a writer, she did a mystery story only last season. And her poems and articles are being published regularly. |