People: People, Nov. 27, 1944

Family Circles

Winston Churchill saw news pictures of Franklin Roosevelt motoring in the rain, promptly sent a dutch-uncle message to the U.S.: "Tell your President not to go out in the rain. I know what he'd say to me if I did it."

General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless at his Carmel, Calif, home, shed his ribbonless four-starred khaki for slacks and an old black sweater, met the press informally. Mum on the subject of his removal from China, grizzled Vinegar Joe said his hat was off to this generation of U.S. fighting...

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