Woman of the Year Page #5

...and a share in the determination

of state policy...

...but also the grave responsibility

which accompanies that privilege.

Today, women of the world

are faced with the first major test...

...of their fitness

to meet that responsibility.

Our place is no longer only in the home.

It is also in the first line of battle."

There is so little

that I can add to her words.

There is so little anyone can add.

Possibly, I'm prejudiced

because she's my aunt.

I don't think so.

Her life and her work

speak eloquently enough.

Twenty years ago,

she was the youngest leader...

...in the feminist movement.

Today she's a tremendous force

in the battle...

...to preserve and extend democracy.

Let us draw from her the inspiration

to use the freedom we have won...

...to defend the freedom of all.

- Well...

- Miss Harding.

You'd better park the car

and meet us at gate 2.

It made me feel very strange,

having Tess call me "aunt."

I've come to regard myself

so completely as her mother.

See, my sister died

when Tess was a little baby.

- Tess was once a baby?

- To begin with.

She and her father were in China.

I went out to take care of her.

And him.

- Interesting place, China.

- Yes.

Especially if you're a maiden aunt

teaching a Chinese nurse...

...things you don't know about.

Which reminds me...

...the Chiang Kai-shek's are having

an anniversary soon. I must tell Gerald.

- Hope we haven't ruined your day.

- No, not at all.

Kept me off the streets

and out of poolrooms.

- What's the matter, Sam?

- Nothing.

- Sure?

- Well, I can't quite figure you out.

What are you trying to prove?

Why am I here?

- Well, Sam...

- Nurmo could've driven you here.

Why did you ask me?

Thought you might want

to kiss me goodbye.

They're holding the plane for us.

Goodbye, Gerald. See you Monday?

- What time?

- Send you a wire?

Yeah, but you do it.

Don't have the little corporal do it.

Goodbye.

Could I drop you somewhere,

Miss Whitcomb?

Drop the "Miss Whitcomb."

Sounds like a reproach.

Bet it has been,

to fellas who didn't know better.

Just for the record, Sam,

it wasn't that exciting.

There was only one

who should've and didn't.

The others did and shouldn't have.

- Going by my hotel?

- Right by. Which one is it?

- I warn you. I'll talk your ears off.

- It won't hurt.

What point are you trying

to make, Sam?

Maybe there isn't any point.

You like your work, don't you?

More all the time.

I don't know why, either,

unless it's because I like people.

I like meeting them

and writing about them.

Unimportant people, though. Guess

that makes me an unimportant guy.

That makes you

a very important guy, Sam.

Not because you rate a byline,

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