The way of gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
Out of the plane with him stepped chubby Braintruster Benjamin V. Cohen, the Embassy's new legal adviser, and Chemist James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard,...
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