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...morning at the end of last month, Harry Truman sat down and tackled the accumulation of personal mail that he always handles himself. No advisers were with him. The only other person in his office was his quiet and devoted personal secretary, Miss Rose Conway. The presidential voice droned through the dictation, the Conway pencil traced its neat shorthand-until Mr. Truman's eyes fell on a letter from California's Republican Congressman Gordon L. McDonough...
...Gibson, 68, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., sixth largest U.S. bank (TIME, Sept. n), American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then to Western Europe...
...Conway, S.C. policeman named James Daniel Johnston-who had just pulled his Klan robe on over his uniform before joining the mob-was hit in the back by a stray bullet. His fellow Kluxers hurriedly abandoned him, dumped Charlie out at the side of a road and vanished...
...motorist spotted the wounded policeman and took him to the Conway hospital, 19 miles from Myrtle Beach. There he died. Next day, city, county and state police refused to say a word; but the case was too hot to hush. As newspapers began digging into the story, Myrtle Beach's tourist-conscious resort owners wrung their hands over the threat to their trade...
...plays harder than most of them, still finds time to salmon-fish and ski (see cut), was once Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Hounds. He has poured more than $300,000 of his own money into his home town of North Conway, N.H., to make it a leading ski center in the U.S. (TIME...