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Harry Truman floated atop successive waves of crisis like a bold bather frolicking in the breakers. Troubled waters mounted mightily, surged thunderously in his direction, broke magnificently over the President's head. From the foamy surf Harry Truman bobbed up every time, splashing and spouting lightheartedly...
...powerful and immensely influential abstractions are well represented by some eight oils; this reviewer particularly liked the striking "Still Life on a Table," the sensuous and flowing "The Mirror," and the austere, powerful "Bather Standing...
Unheroic Hero. Teddy Tewler was born ("shyly, not headfirst but toe-first, like a timid bather") about the turn of the century. Even his conception was an accident. "One knew there was some sort of knowledge about [contraception], but one couldn't be too careful whom one asked, and your doctor also in those days couldn't be too careful in misunderstanding your discreet hints and soundings." When Teddy was four, his father died of indecision (you can't be too careful) among a convergence of busses. In his extreme youth Teddy enjoyed sticking out his tongue...
...Nantasket Beach, Mass., a bather thought he saw his wife weltering in the surf, frantically summoned lifeguards, who plunged in, rescued a beer...
...tiny village of Goshen, N. Y. It was the year's muggiest day. But the sweltering crowd-a hodge-podge of city slickers and country bumpkins-jostling into Good Time Park like a rush-hour subway crush, would not have traded places with the coolest sea bather. Up to the bookmakers they streamed, placed their bets, bought soda pop, then settled down to watch the four races on the Hambletonian Day card...