Background of news –
A different Potsdam
By Bertram Benedict
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Movie sets provide interesting data on life of stars
Columnist finds Walker drinking milk, Greer Garson ‘dishing it out’
By Erskine Johnson
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Hollywood stockings aren’t what they seem
By Patricia Clary
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Diary of Count Ciano –
Triumphal entrance into Cairo planned by sawdust Caesar
Mussolini’s dream shattered by British stand at El Alamein, son-in-law’s diary shows
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Bedford awaits Japs as high fence around big hotel is erected
But is it to keep Nips in or Americans out? That’s the latest $64 question
By Gilbert Love, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Simms: U.S. lives may depend on future of Mikado
Bitter debate rages over disposition of Jap Emperor
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
HOLLYWOOD – My goodness, if American housewives had any inkling how the delegates were going to live during the Big Three Conference in Potsdam, that cruiser carrying President Truman would have been full of stowaways.
The story says the living quarters there are furnished with 20 electric refrigerators, 50 vacuum cleaners and 90 electric irons. The eyes of every woman will be on that conference waiting to see the fate of all those scarce appliances. Twenty lawnmowers and a hundred bedside lamps were also mentioned. I guess the lawnmowers are there because President Truman doesn’t want any grass to grow under his feet.
And those bedside lams probably were provided so the American delegates won’t miss their comic strips. It will be nice for them to read about characters who have more problems than they have.