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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. MEW YORK. Our newest battle- ships mount such firepower of such diverse calibers, that they can pound a mountain to rubble or plunk , . a humming No Longer Raise bird at afty Sitting Ducks, but feet Rear Screaming Eagles Admiral WU-nam WU-nam H. P. Blandy puts it another way. He says they have finally caught up with the parade; meaning they are no longer, long-er, as was Britain's Repulse, a sitting sit-ting duck for any dozen dive bombers. bomb-ers. Of all our admirals Blandy should know. He is chief of the bureau of ordnance and has been fathoms deep in gun design and manufacture, fire control, armor and projectiles for a quarter century. At Annapolis he was top man of his class and even then tops in ordnance. ord-nance. He has the Class of 1871 Sword to prove it. He was barely graduated when he wanted to marry. mar-ry. She was Roberta Ames, just about Washington's prettiest in 1913. However, he was sent on a cruise and the wedding waited for almost a year. His present post, at fifty, Is the cap sheaf on a single-minded career. Besides that sword he holds commendations for increasing in-creasing the accuracy of fire of his destroyer . squadron. And while he was gunnery officer on the New Mexico she won pennants, pen-nants, gunnery "E's," trophies and cups, everything in sight. He has been ordnance chief since 1941. About then world events made Jt plain that this country was going to need a man who could fix its battleships so they could pound mountains to rubble and plunk humming hum-ming birds at fifty feet. ONE national leader who is not writing a peace plan at this early date is the Junoesque president presi-dent of the General Federation of ... w . ,r W o m e n's Stick to War Now, CTubs Sne Better Peace Later, counsels GFWC Head Says P"ce will get better bet-ter treatment in the years ahead if her followers limit themselves these days to understanding the war effort ef-fort and helping it along. She Is Mrs. John L. White-hurst White-hurst of Baltimore, Sara to Maryland's club women, five feet eleven inches of executive vacuum cleaner, but a model wife also who wouldn't be coaxed out of domesticity until she had phoned her husband and he had said it was all right with him. Mrs. Whitehurst has been federation federa-tion president since '41. She was headed for medicine, with special notions no-tions about psychiatry, until she met John L. eighteen years ago. Since then she has dug into national and international affairs and, when she counsels her followers, she does not need to read from a book. She Is that rare bird, a woman who does not like to shop. Something Some-thing sensibly dark and tailored for the street, something light and lacy for evening sums up her specifications when she does her semi-annual buying. Plus pearl earrings: "I hardly feel dressed without them." Pearl earrings and all she is a good cook. Waffles, spaghetti and what lobster newburg! She is a good musician, too, piano and pipe organ and likes Beethoven and Tschaikow-skl. Tschaikow-skl. Sinatra? Hardly I She can also knit and crochet a blue streak, and serves on a raft of boards to boot. ipVER since the present war be-gan be-gan H. Freeman Matthews has been in the thick of things on the diplomatic front in Europe. Now Home to Guide Us movSig Through Highly toward a cli- Dramatic Days max on beleaguered continent, he's coming home to head the European division of the state department. With him he's bringing bring-ing plenty of knowledge gained first hand both in France and England. For a time after the fall of France, as charge d' affaires he ran the American embassy in Vichy. That was after Ambassador Ambas-sador Bullitt left and before Admiral Leahy checked In. After Aft-er the naval man's arrival, Matthews sat in on all the talks with Petain and the late Admiral Darlan, serving as Interpreter for Leahy. Late in '41 he was shifted to London and he was counsellor of the C. S. embassy there when the call home arrived. ar-rived. This forty-four-year-old native of Baltimore is a career diplomat. He received his initial assignment just three years after leaving Princeton and its Quadrangle club in 1921. He was sent first to Budapest Later he turned up in Bogota, Colombia. Jefferson Caffrey was there at the time, and he liked his young aide so well that he took him along with him when he was made ambassador to Cuba. Those were hectic days down in Havana and some thugs once attacked Matthews' automobile, automo-bile, but fortunately he was elsewhere else-where at the time. |