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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. TSJEW YORK As chairman of ' Foods for Freedom, Elizabeth Reeve Cutler Morrow may look bacll to the days when she and her hus- band went Mrs. Morrow Has xo house- Always Budgeted keeping. Time and Money Thought must have been given to the grocery money then. They had turned down a $70 a month house in Plainfleld, N. J., in favor of one at $60 in Englewood. They went without a telephone, since the budget did not allow one. (That was before Dwight W. Morrow Mor-row rose to be a Morgan partner and United States ambassador to Mexico.) When Mrs. Morrow's four children were small she never failed to find time for a half hour of reading at supper. The sensitive sen-sitive ears of one of her daughters daugh-ters took in the rhythm of poetry and gave it out later in memorable prose. Earlier, as a student at Smith, Mrs. Morrow edited the College Monthly. As a graduate student at the Sorbonne and as a young teacher, teach-er, she wrote stories and poems. After her marriage she produced five books, including The Painted Pig. (Three publishers rejected this successful tale of life down in Old Mexico.) Meanwhile, Mrs. Morrow gardened. gar-dened. She acted as president of Smith for a year, and still serves as trustee. And now, besides be-sides concerning herself with food, she aids the National War Fund drive and urges a woman at the peace table. Her husband must have trusted her budgeting. He left her the bulk of his estate. Erect, petite, calm, with a smile like Daughter Anne's, she was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 70 years ago. CECOND FRONT TALK comes to the surface in the wake of the Kremlin banquet, and so brings closer the biggest job in the ram- -f; t c- bunctious Will Toss First career of Grenade at Nazis young Maj. If Invasion Comes Gen. Robert Laycock.He has just moved into the post of Britain's Brit-ain's chief commando, recently vacated va-cated by Lord Louis Mountbatten, and will lead his commandos in the attack on the Nazis' channel defenses de-fenses if and when an invasion is ordered. Laycock, after surviving the attack on Salerno, the invasion of Sicily, the evacuation of Crete and an attempt in 1941 to kidnap Germany's Rommel, is now nicknamed Lucky. He is Britain's Brit-ain's youngest major general, long and strong with a hard, close-cropped head, a small tight mouth and eyes that in anger an-ger remind observers who knew their Kipling well of Rikki-tikki-Tavi. Very likely Laycock knows Kipling, Kip-ling, too, and has discovered that If one re.ads "Adolf Hitler" for "Danny Deever" that notable hanging hang-ing swings along just as smoothly. He relishes poetry, the sage sayings of Socrates and Plato, and is a middling mid-dling amateur barber to boot. In the field, when no professional is handy he cheerfully cuts his brother officers' of-ficers' overgrown hair. Fortyish, he is married to a trim, handsome brunette, the former Angela Dudley Ward, who would, so London newspapers news-papers say, herself make a good commando leader. They have three children. tVER since the Moscow confer-ence, confer-ence, reporters have been talking talk-ing their heads off about the contrast con-trast Cordell Hull and Russia's su- Cordell Hull Has st"n Pulled Himself Up made.There By Wis Bootstraps definitely is one similarity. similar-ity. Hull was born in a log cabin, actually. That starts him at least even with Stalin. But whereas Stalin still looks the part, Hull has for years looked like a man to the manor born. When he comes into the shabby shab-by conference room of the shabby shab-by state department building to face Washington correspondents he couldn't be more assured if he were backed up by a dozen generations of arms-bearing ancestors. an-cestors. He looks like the descendant de-scendant of such, too. At 72, be is still one of the handsomest men at either end of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania avenue. On his record he always had assurance. as-surance. He helped elect a governor gover-nor when he was seventeen; practiced prac-ticed law at nineteen; was a Tennessee Ten-nessee Iegslator at twenty-one, and in the Spanish American war was his regiment's best poker player. An ex-judge, ex-representative and ex- I senator, he is one of the New Deal's ! most durable administrators. He ' has been in the cabinet since 1933 and around Washington the notion ! prevails that whoever fights him will lose. Sumner Welles probably never had as much chance as a snowball j In the Sahara. i |