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...severe case of upset stomach. There was no telling exactly what had caused the attack-although it seemed likely it was set off by the savory, highly spiced bass dish the President ate for lunch-but he suffered sharp abdominal pain, and slept little. Next morning, when Mamie bade him an anxious goodbye at their Augusta hideaway (the green-shuttered, three-room Bobby Jones cottage) he was running a slight (100°) fever...
...Bade farewell to his old friend and wartime comrade, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, after telling Monty that his regiment, the Royal Warwickshire, had burned the White House...
...final version, she couldn't have looked prettier to Paramount tycoons if she had been fitted with Lana Turner's head. When Paramount's advertising director saw the finished product in Manhattan he turned to his secretary and bade her take a wire to Producer Irving Asher in Hollywood. "Say this " he instructed. "This girl is Miss Crosby! Don't let anybody teach...
Defense Secretary Lovett, a Republican himself, waited until last week to announce that the U.S. could hardly fight a war under the present chaotic setup of his Defense Department. Secretary of State Acheson, for his part, bade farewell to the U.S. Foreign Service with a thinly veiled appeal to the Foreign Service to stay true to Acheson policies & principles, come what may. Harry Truman sent Congress a budget with a $9.9 billion deficit. He also wrote Ike a letter asking him to put 400,000 "temporary" Government employees on the permanent civil-service list. If Ike does, he freezes...
...Republican Convention last summer, ex-President Herbert Hoover, 77, and well aware of "the inexorable course of nature," made what he believed to be his last major address and bade an emotional farewell to politics. Last week, at Dwight Eisenhower's personal request, he stepped back into public life to speak out against "misrepresentations" about the G.O.P. with which "the American people have been deluged" in the last 20 years. Speaking over a national radio & television hookup, Elder Statesman Hoover aimed his speech at the "40 million voters who have come of age since there was a Republican administration...