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Friendly, gregarious Harry Truman had his fun during his half-week trip to Missouri with Winston Churchill. Their Baltimore & Ohio private train was out of Washington less than an hour when the President walked its length, shaking hands with reporters, cameramen, secret service men, crewmen. Up in the cab of the diesel engine he delighted himself and cameramen by pulling on a pair of cotton work gloves and sitting at the controls while the long, blue train rumbled through the West Virginia hills...
Harry Truman seemed glad for the interruption in routine when a cluster of Hollywood and radio stars, helping out the Infantile Paralysis Fund campaign, dropped in for lunch. He cheerfully obeyed cameramen's shouted commands, had a long chat with bright-eyed Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien...
...partial guarantee that some of Haya's big reconstruction plans would be carried out, Apristas were placed in the Finance, Public Works and Agriculture Ministries. Then, to sanctify the union, Bustamente and Haya came out on the steps of the presidential palace and embraced each other till the cameramen said quit...
...atomic bomb, arrived in New York City by plane from England, got a push-&-pull welcome from newsmen and relatives. Black-clad, quiet Dr. Meitner stepped from the plane, saw the crowd, promptly stepped back in again, got hold of herself, finally reemerged. Reporters let go with questions, cameramen with flash bulbs. A spotlight's fuse blew. "I'm so awfully tired," said Dr. Meitner. Relatives bustled her off. Next day she was in at the unveiling of the man-made meson (see SCIENCE). Next stop, after a rest: Washington, DC., where she will teach at Catholic University...
...afoul of British ration laws for trying to get a fur coat from the U.S., she thought she might bag one this trip, "if I have any gentlemen friends." Newsreel men handed her a canned speech to read. "That's the worst speech I ever heard," said she. Cameramen took closeups. "We never did this to Mrs. Roosevelt," the Viscountess protested. "No other country in the world behaves like America!" At interview's end she moved off, cried loudly as she departed, laughing: "Goodbye, you horrors-you horrors...