People: People, Apr. 28, 1941

As Wendell Willkie took a job with a law firm (see p. 77), Oren Root Jr., 29, organizer of last year's Willkie Clubs, left a seven-week-old job as junior member of the Wall Street law firm of Hatch, McLean & Root, reported for duty as aide to the Navy Purchasing Officer in Manhattan.

With a fine crop of Washington socialites sitting under her domineering auctioneering spell, fat, party-witted Elsa Maxwell raised $10 for the R.A.F. by knocking down an alleged tuft of George III's beard.

Bald, sharp-witted Film Producer Kenneth Macgowan (In Old Chicago, Tin...

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