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With Ike were his wife, onetime Democratic Handyman George Allen and his wife, and William E. Robinson, executive vice president of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. They had come to Augusta for a vacation. They stepped into a waiting car and were whisked away...
They sped over The Hill, Augusta's exclusive residential section, to the swank Augusta National Golf Club, built in the early '30s under Bobby Jones's personal direction...
...Augusta Chronicle sent a reporter and a photographer to try for an interview; they were not even allowed out of their car. When the Chronicle's Managing Editor Louis J. Harris tried, the Pinker-tons stopped him 50 feet short of the clubhouse. He yelled for the club's manager, who told him that the General was not to be disturbed and ordered him off the grounds...
Major General Raymond O. Barton, a West Point classmate of Ike's, now retired and living in Augusta, got the same treatment when he called to pay his respects. He had to wire for a pass to get through the gold-plated blockade...
...week's end, the curtain clanged down again. Ike had said he would stay at Augusta for another 10 days. Meanwhile, political dopesters buzzed with comment. Was George Allen, who had successfully hitched himself to the coattails of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, getting his grip on Ike's? Had he brought Ike a significant message from Truman? Had the next President of the U.S. been named on the Augusta National Golf Club's 18th green? Or-and this is what set the dopesters' teeth on edge-was it possible that Ike and Georgie had gone...