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Plans for '52. Only once during the week did he make one of his cryptic references to 1952. Standing on the steps to the White House rose garden and beaming down on a delegation of clean-scrubbed 4-H farm boys & girls, ex-Plowboy Truman told his grinning audience that a farm was a wonderful place. "I hope to go back to the farm some day," he said, "some people are in a hurry for me to go back, but I'm not going back as fast as they may want...
...cryptic, 20-word sentence, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department last week gave a progress report on the H-bomb. Said a joint press release: recent "successful" atomic tests at Eniwetok "included experiments contributing to thermonuclear weapons research...
Most Washington correspondents were already in bed last week when their telephones jangled with the cryptic midnight summons: "This is the White House. Mr. Short will have an announcement at 1 o'clock." Getting into their clothes, the disheveled newsmen hustled to the darkened White House. They had not been called out at such an hour since Italy's surrender in 1943. Nervously, they swapped guesses on what news was big enough to justify it now. Said one: "I hope it is only MacArthur...
Among Warren Austin's more vivid memories is his maternal grandfather Robinson. The vinegary old Vermonter, when aroused, used to terrify his grandson with a cryptic and thunderous shout: "The Dragon! The Dragon...
...Codes. In Ohio's rural Union County, Adams picked up his first, faint signal on a frequency of 650 kilocycles. To his surprise, station WKGR, instead of sending out cryptic or coded messages, was blithely broadcasting standard fare: recordings, news shorts and amateur talent shows, interspersed with hearty commercial plugs for such concerns as the Hildreth Jewelry Store and Conrad Coal Co. of the county seat, Marysville...