THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week

Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, took Winston Churchill to the White House for a friendly chat. Enormous Kate Smith, radio singer, was escorted there by Brigadier General Frank Thomas Hines, to get presidential thanks for her entertainment of disabled soldiers. German Ambassador von Prittwitz introduced Dr. Oscar Eckstein of Berlin, adviser to the German Potash Syndicate. Actor Fred Stone, whose mother died two days before, dropped around with his daughter Paula for a brief how-do-you-do. Ambassador Edge, New Jersey Wet, home on leave from Paris, after a conference with President...

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