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...legend which Truman loves to retell. The sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams, he said, delighted in early-morning plunges off the backyard riverbank. One morning an enterprising newspaper woman, Anne Royall, trapped President Adams in swimming, sat on his clothes and demanded an interview. In the buff and chin-deep in the water, Adams surrendered, and sounded off about the day's issues until Newshen Royall retreated with her story...
...police shoved Calhoun into a back room, stripped him to the buff, and searched him. Then, as he vainly shouted for the U.S. consul, they hauled him off to Caracas' Model Jail. In his cell, Calhoun repeated his demands to see the consul. When he got no action, he kicked out the cell window, went on a hunger strike...
Where's Charlie? C.E. himself learned his production lessons early. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his parents were schoolteachers, he had a childhood which many another boy would envy. The buff brick Wilson house was flanked by the homes of two locomotive engineers. They were his heroes who told him all about railroading and let him ride in their cabs...
...unprecedented dual yearbook was created by amalgamation of the '47 and '48 staffs in March 1947, since the two classes were almost unrecognizably intermingled during the war years. Sixteen hundred maroon-and-buff covered copies will be mailed as soon as the books are bound, Coombs said...
...took four months of bureaucratic gear-grinding for the King's instructions to bear fruit. Last week, an official buff-colored envelope flopped on to Alfred's doormat. Inside was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . . . was referred by the King to the Minister of Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful consideration and has decided that ... an exception to the general rule . . . may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears...