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...back on the train 36 miles up the track and making an off-the-cuff speech to a crowd of 5,000 at Mexico, Mo. He left his special car for an automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants...
...Girl." Next day, the President found himself talking off-the-cuff again. Visited by members of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation, ex-Farmer Truman explained that two of his nephews, Gilbert and Harry (sons of brother Vivian), were working the 600-acre Missouri farm that the President had once tilled. "My boy's a girl," said the President. "Of course, I wouldn't trade her for any two boys, but I wish I had some. These boys are good farmers and they have that sort of reputation. The only handicap they have is that their uncle...
...sense, it was. Before he got it built he had to borrow huge sums, much of the money from a set of Detroit and Cleveland sharpies. But he fabricated his gaudy dream, kept a healthy third interest, and was still out in front as manager, diamond-studded cuff links glittering, when the last carpet was tacked down...
...broad-shouldered Father Hartnett scribbled notes diligently while Blanshard talked and, when he got his turn, quickly abandoned his prepared speech to speak off the cuff. The trouble with Blanshard, he said, "is his lack of firsthand knowledge of Catholicism. Reviewers have praised his book for its documentation. Why does he have to document it so much? . . . Because the man does not know the Catholic Church like those of us who are on the inside. It's very much like the foreigner who had never visited the United States, but wrote a book about it from our Constitution...
...true drape wore his hair seaweed-long. His shirt was pastel pink and buttoned at the throat (no tie); the jacket was loose, wraparound and without lapels. But the distinctive mark was the black zaks-slacks, that is, that are sharply nipped at the bottom to a narrow cuff. The effect was something between a sagging pair of plus fours and badly fitting jodhpurs...