Word: catoctin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Took a trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, which Franklin Roosevelt named Shangri-La and which Eisenhower renamed Camp David in honor of his five-year-old grandson and namesake...
Harry Truman has never cared for Shangri-La, Franklin Roosevelt's old vacation hangout in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Md., but last week, under Mrs. Truman's urging, he reluctantly consented to pay it a weekend visit. It was a gloomy trip. The weather was enough to make even a President say, "I told you so»-the temperature went down to 40°, it rained & rained, and daughter Margaret developed a miserable toothache. When Harry Truman got back home, White House aides guessed that Shangri-La would never see him again...
...modest, considering his income. In Manhattan he has a cluttered two-room penthouse suite at the middle-class Lexington Hotel. His Texas-born, blonde wife Mary, who was originally an NBC secretary in Washington, lives in a ten-room brick and stone house called Beacon Hill Farms on Catoctin Ridge in northern Virginia. With her are the children: daughter Pat, 7; Arthur Jr., 9; and 20-year-old Dick, the son of Arthur's first marriage. The farm's 700 acres are stocked with white-face Hereford cattle and Arabian horses which pay its running expenses. Godfrey...