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Harry Truman was as cheery as the big, frosted cake which he got last week on his 63rd birthday. He said he felt no older than when he came to the Senate in 1935. He had lunch with his staff in the White House mess, a dinner party, with Mrs. Truman and Daughter Margaret along, at Washington's swank F Street Club. Among his birthday presents: three dozen ties, a Panama hat, 63 roses and congressional talk of something more substantial-a pension of $50,000 a year on retirement. After paying taxes and White House operating expenses...
...Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when a baby cried, the General went over and pinched its cheek. "I think it was sick," said Hodgey...
Last week France's No. 1 journalist-in-exile packed his belongings in Washington, including his cocker spaniel Busy Bee, gift of his good friend Walter Lippmann, and got ready to sail home. He hoped to celebrate his 63rd birthday on the Atlantic. It had been five years and four months since "Pertinax" sailed out of Bordeaux on a British destroyer, away from a France which had not heeded his Cassandra-like warnings...
...with a great deal of pleasure that we noticed the few lines mentioning the 63rd Division's version of Carmen in your Overseas issue of August...
...group of 45 combat infantrymen from the 253rd Infantry, 63rd Division, who comprise the G.I. version of the old favorite, have done 50 performances to date before some 56,000 troops. The show has appeared in Heidelberg at the world-famed Stadt Theater, in Mannheim at the onetime luxurious UFA Palast, at the Walhalla Theater in Wiesbaden and the Liberty and Montgomery Theaters in Kassel...