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...65th birthday party Harry Truman looked and acted like a man who had few qualms about the future. Congress was acting up again (see The Congress) and he still had four tough years ahead in the White House. But at 65, the President seemed to be in better shape than when he took office four years ago. "The President," proclaimed the White House physician, Brigadier General Wallace Graham, "is as close to being an iron man as anyone I know...
...ticket manager Frank O. Lunden announced yesterday that the 65th Yale game is a complete sellout, and that some 2000 extra applications went into the mails yesterday with regrets and refunds...
Otis' biggest job was the $3 ½ million installation of 74 elevators in the Empire State Building. But Westinghouse Electric, Otis' chief competitor, claims the world's fastest elevators: Rockefeller Center's bank of eight, which travel between the first and 65th floors of the RCA Building at 1,400 feet per minute, make passengers' ears pop with the fast change in atmospheric pressure...
...Sweden's husky Martin Lundstroem, who plowed his way to victory in the 11.2-mile cross-country ski race. Nineteen of the first 20 to finish were Scandinavians; the first U.S. skier came in 65th. ¶t]J Switzerland's Felix Endrich, 26, who zoomed down the perilous bobsled course (sometimes at close to 80 m.p.h.) to win the boblet (two-man sled) crown from his coach, Fritz Feierabend...
...65th birthday party, the Colonel asked Bazy Miller to stand up in front of his 170 guests. "Bazy," he rumbled, "tradition has an important part in every organization. And when, 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer [here], Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy-will be carrying on the tradition of Joseph Medill, an invaluable thing...