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...smoothly this week without its two top guests of honor-President Truman and Hopalong Cassidy-even though it was postponed especially to ensure the presence of both (TIME, May 22). The celebration committee's chairman, Colonel Waldron Leonard, didn't blame the President. After all, Vice President Alben Barkley was ready & willing to appear as his standin...
...Defensive. With his thin hair rumpled in the breeze, his coat slung on the seat beside him, he kept his Ford rolling on-from a V.F.W. meeting in Pink Hill, to the Daniel Boone celebration in Salisbury (accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley), to a Lions Club meeting in Albemarle. After every meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking...
During a speech in bone-dry Oklahoma, Vice President Alben Berkley paused, eyed a glass of water skeptically, then handed it back with a firm but courteous answer: "I appreciate that very much, but I'm from Kentucky...
Then a very unsenatorial thing happened: the Senate chamber was still, and no one got up to speak. At his front-row desk, McCarran stared stonily at Vice President Alben Barkley in the chair. McCarran's strategy was to allow his opponents to use up all their allotted time, leaving him the last, unanswerable word. The leader of his opponents, West Virginia's chunky, Fair Dealing Harley Kilgore, as stubbornly clung to his allowance of 39 minutes to be used after McCarran. Barkley asked if McCarran wanted to use or to yield any of his time. No, said...
...Methodist Council of Bishops and the Ecumenical Council of Methodist Churches, announced that he would marry Mrs. Starr Carithers, a widow of Winder, Ga., on March 27. The formal announcement was made in Washington at a luncheon given by the bishop's good friends, Vice President & Mrs. Alben Berkley, at whose wedding he had officiated...