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...Chubby, chipper Jacques Duclos, one-time pastry cook, is Secretary General of the French Communists; he is also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
...President and the newsman, with the Secret Service men, walked briskly west on Pennsylvania Avenue to 17th Street N.W., cut up G Street to 18th Street, and turned north. Harry Truman, in a blue double-breasted suit, was chipper and chatty. He said he felt fine-all right in every way. Just after Christmas his weight had shot up 15 Ibs. to 175, but he had got it down 5 Ibs. and now he was holding it there pretty steadily. He was not dieting; he was just not eating as much...
Next day it rained. But more than 100 of the faithful journeyed to the islands, found chipper Harry Truman in a brown leather bushjacket (he calls it his "zoot" suit). The party centered around him at the piano. He played some Chopin, and accompanied gusty renditions of the inevitable How Dry I Am and Sweet Adeline. At dark the fun broke up. The President was buttonholed by newsmen at the White House back door. He had one newsmaking thing to say: he alone would make the decision about the atomic bomb secret (see INTERNATIONAL). Had the President done himself some...
Last year aging Mrs. Clara Driscoll, still addicted to cosmetics and long skirts and still chipper, won her last political fight. She stomped into the Nueces County Democratic convention, acidly scolded it out of joining the Texas revolt against...
Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, the small boy in Cheyenne, Wyo. who got a month-early Christmas party last year when everyone thought he was dying, looked forward to his fourth birthday July ii. Now fit, chipper and feeling like a new boy, six months after a life-saving operation, he pedalled around for news photographers on his velocipede (see cut), one of his houseful of Christmas presents from sympathetic newspaper readers...