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...Joiner. Flamboyant Louis Johnson, 58, has been performing such useful chores ever since he first hung out his law shingle in Clarksburg, W. Va. 37 years ago. At 26 he was the Democratic majority floor leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates. He returned from World War I as an infantry captain, soon became a $40,000-a-year corporation lawyer. But he never strayed far from politics...
...morning last week, on the home-bound Presidential Special, tired, baggy-eyed Charlie Ross, press secretary to Harry Truman, ambled into the reporters' work car. Said Ross: "Good speech coming up at Clarksburg; it'll make a good story." Then he put down a sheaf of papers and said casually that here was a White House statement...
...nothing of the sort, but by the time Charlie Ross got it explained, precious time had gone by-and the reporters were scrambling to cover the Clarksburg, W.Va. speech. Without warning to the pressmen, the President had stepped off the rear platform to say his piece, and the loudspeakers in the train had not caught a word. To make matters worse, the press services could not get stories of the speech off the train for 45 minutes...
Checking Out. A fortnight ago Charles Porter, 52, locked his prettily furnished Washington apartment, and went to Clarksburg, W.Va., where he took a hotel room. He hardly stepped out of the room for four days, even...
...fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence in the case. He had reportedly made a record of all his conversations with Cissie Patterson. So the Times-Herald quickly got an order from the executrix, chartered a plane and flew two men to Clarksburg to get Porter's luggage...