FRIDAY, JANUARY 6.1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Bill' Lewis, Famous Briton Remembered By Newsmen
Washington, Jan. 6—(U,P)]-It was a solemn moment at the big, round "family" table in the main dining room of the National Press club.
A couple of oldtime newspapermen were chewing over old times. The waiter appeared and John Parkerson and Herbert Corey said in unison:
"Old Fashioneds."
Jackson, the waiter, disappeared and returned in jig-time.
"These drinks," he said, "are on an old friend of Mr. Lewis.
John and Herb, who had been through many a trying battle in many a trying war with Sir Wilmott Lewis, of the London Times, downed their drinks without even a toast.
That's the way newspapermen end things.
Sir Willmott, who was knighted by Britain in 1831, died in his easy chain
out of 72, after many full years—few of which were lived here. He preferred to be called "Bill" by his friends, but admitted that as a lecturer he made twice as much after he was knighted. Anyhow, he was "Bill" to a lot of American presidents.
Bill was a student and a scholar and he hated to see a colleague go off half-cocked. He helped his pals abroad and here in his adopted home. In Europe, in a couple of wars, he saved the editorial skin of many a friend when it came to geography and language and how to slip one over on the censors.
He did the same here, where eventually he became known as the "unofficial ambassador" from Britain.
Sir Bill once straightened out an American neophyte he had hired, who was filing a piece to London out of Congress. The lad had latched onto the name "Lancaster" in a certain bill.
"Young man," he corrected the youngster, "there is more than one Lancaster. One is in Missouri. There is one in England, too, but this is not a piece to be cabled."
Being a Briton, the old guy didn't pull his punches and often saw him self coming back. Often, he would file face to the London Times, whose Washington bureau he headed for many years, and would be surprised to see the Press associations pick up his story and send it back saying "The Washington correspondent of the London Times says . . . etc."
Bill was quick with a quip and
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That doesn't mean that old Bill played American politics. He didn't. But on political assignments, he gave the American writers a bad time.
Screen Stars Win New 1949 Titles
Hollywood — U (J.P) — Those people who hand out "most" and "best" of the year titles got around to screen stars Robert Young and Dan Durvea.
"Young is the best example of a man who is comfortable although well dressed," said Phil Kurtzman, president of an association of men's sportswear manufacturers. "Such actors as Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando carry comfort too far. They are sloppy."
California apparel men consider Young to be "the most comfortably dressed" man of 1949.
Duryea's title was bestowed by a group of film lady "heavies." The screen badman was tagged "Hollywood heel of the year," winning out over such luminaries as Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
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World War II veterans in western Missouri and northeastern Kansas are continuing to purchase homes with a GI loan in increasing numbers, the Veterans Administration regional office in Kansas City has announced.
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That office said this week that 490 GI loans were approved during December for veterans who live in this 62-county area and that altogether 26,128 GI loans have been obtained by veterans, of which 21,870 are loans for the purchase or construction of a home. Total aggregate sum of the GI loans granted to veterans to date is $108,331,742, the VA said. Nearly $94 million of this are GI home loans.
The V.A. said that several factors are influencing the number of GI loans presently being approved. Pointing out that the demand for veteran housing has not abated, the V.A. said the fact that the federal national mortgage association is now authorized to buy GI loans from private lenders is one of the reasons for banks, building and loan associations and others having more money available for this type loan.
The V.A. said there has been a sharp upturn in GI loans throughout the country during the past few months and that the number of GI approved loans for one month recently reached 40,000, an all-time high since 1947.
Veterans in this area may secure assistant through the V. A. regional office located at 1828 Walnut in Kansas City, Missouri.
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