Henry L. Stimson, whose weekly press conferences are Washington's most austere since Herbert Hoover's, was greeted on his 77th birthday by a chorus of reporters singing a lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth not."
Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands was admitted by King George VI into Britain's most ancient (founded in...
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