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Newspaper Clipping, Baltimore Sun, "Secret Talks Her Dish"
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Newspaper Clipping, Baltimore Sun, "Secret Talks Her Dish"
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Anderson, E. Vernice, 1921-2014
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1950.
SECRET TALKS HER DISH
of the utmost importance on her
threadbare. I noted that his
in hand. He is a very demantic
portable typewriter-as for in-
trousers are not cut like the
person."
SECRETARY TO JESSUP ONLY
stance, the communique. Fre-
ordinary milltery man's. They
quently she takes dictation when
have pleats around the middle.'
WOMAN AT WAKE SESSION.
air travel is so rough she can
Miss Anderson had her own
hardly transcribe her notes the
ideas of why this artifice was
Stenographic Notes of Miss Ver-
used by the general:
nice Anderson Contain Ver-
next day.
"He is beginning to show his
batim Report on Truman
Her Secret of Energy.
age slightly. He has a stoop."
and MacArthur.
How does she keep up the
As for whether MacArthur
pace with this work demon for
was ill at ease or found this
conference distasteful to him,
By SARAH McCLENDON.
a boss
she said:
(North American Newspaper Alliance.)
"Vitamins-I take scads: of
"Oh, I don't think so at all.
Washington, Oct. 21.-An at-
them.'
General MacArthur is always at
tractive American career girl
She was not too willing to talk
ease. He has the situation well
whose nimble fingers have taken
down in shorthand the minutes
about the conference, except in
of several international confer-
a general way.
ences possesses the only ver-
"I didn't talk to the general
batim copy in existence of what
privately. None of us did.
transpired in that historic meet-
Nearly the whole time he was
ing between President Truman
with the President."
and General Douglas MacArthur
She Meets the General.
TRUMAN
on Wake Island.
What did Vernice think of
It was she who wrote out the
General MacArthur?
communique which was issued
She had longed to meet him.
is ARCHIVES "NATIONAL ADMIN." RECORDS AND
after the meeting and, initialed
Once she had stayed in his guest
by both men, and it was from
house in Tokyo without getting
these same notes that material
to meet him. It looked for a
Es
was taken for the President's
time as if this disappointment
speech later in San Francisco.
might be repeated. The con-
On her accurate shorthand and
ference was over; President
transcribing may some day de-
Truman had left the building,
and she assumed the general
pend history.
How does she feel about get-
had, too. She was about to de-
ting to make this trip on which
part with her arms full of papers
and notebooks, when she ran
she was the only woman?
"I'm the luckiest girl in the
right into General MacArthur.
"Where did this beautiful
world," says Miss Vernice An-
woman come from?' asked the
derson, secretary to Phillip Jes-
general. His pilot and her old
sup, ambassador-at-large. "It's
friend, Lieut. Col. Tony Story,
wonderful to be secretary to an
then introduced them and they
halt Son
ambassador-at-large, anyway,'
chatted for a few minutes. What
she said, "and this is even
did he say?
more thrilling.'
"I'll confess, I was so excited
Constantly On The Go.
I can't remember a word. He
Miss Anderson is of medium
fascinated me. He is the most
height, has blue eyes, olive com-
charming person.
plexion, auburn hair and a short,
Needs New Hat.
modern haircut. She wears
"I think his hat is very hand-
beautiful suits for which she
some, but I did note that it is
never has time to shop. She can
never get off from work at the
State department to go down-
town. Her mother, Mrs. Maude
G. Anderson, who is a personal
shopper at a large store here,
picks out all of her daughter's
clothes.
As for clothes, Miss Anderson
always has just the proper thing
to wear for any climate. As
secretary to Ambassador Jes-
sup, she has learned to keep a
bag packed. She had 48 hours
notice on this last trip, which
lasted six days and covered
14,500 miles.
She has been to meetings of
the foreign ministers in Paris
Preservation Copy
and London, to meetings of the
North Atlantic treaty organiza-
tion, and to the Bangkok con-
ference.
How does it happen that Dr.
Jessup must always take his
secretary?
"He never stops work," says
Vernice. "He's a veritable
demon.'
She has learned to type letters