The Ottawa Indians of Michigan gathered on a bluff, pounded their tom-toms, and made Dwight D. Eisenhower an honorary member, in absentia.
In Manhattan, the Embroidery Merchants Association decided that the fitting title for Rita Hayworth was "Embroidery Queen of 1948." Rita was in absentia too (see CINEMA).
Bernard Baruch, who had acquired hardly any new honors in recent weeks, informed a Manhattan society .columnist of something rather flattering that Mary Churchill, Winston's youngest, had told him recently: when she was little she had wondered what God looked like; then she had met...