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...Army had arranged a big show. Chicago turned out, some 1,000,000 strong, on a cold and windy morning. They gathered along streets of the Loop to watch the President's party drive to Michigan Boulevard's Blackstone Hotel. There were some cheers as smiling Harry Truman's car passed. For the car behind his, carrying General Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, there were prolonged huzzahs...
Then, for two hours and 45 minutes the President, his wife and daughter stood stiffly in the cold as tanks, armored cars, sleek green guns and some 14,000 soldiers passed his reviewing stand on Michigan Boulevard...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...
...long lines in front of the annual Christmas week show at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the picket lines in Detroit, the lines of dazzling lights reappearing on the trees along Hollywood Boulevard-all these, in their own manner, offered proof that the U.S. was back to some kind of normalcy after four years of war. The uniforms were disappearing; the face of the land and the face of the people took on a prewar complexion...
Slip of the Hand. But when Perc and his brothers branched out into the beauty business in 1933, in a pink-brocaded, chromium and black-glass salon on Sunset Boulevard, their, hand slipped. None had any business sense. The House of Westmore almost folded before they hired a businessman, S. Willard Isaacs, former owner of a local beauty-shop chain, to run it. He still runs the House of Westmore. Last year it grossed $2,225,000 from the sale of Westmore products, $300,000 more from the salon, paid the brothers both salaries and handsome dividends...