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...Sunday, Ike went to 8:30 a.m. services at the neighborhood Corona Presbyterian Church, walking the 2½ blocks from Mrs Doud's home. Just before he started, Ike noticed in Denver's Rocky Mountain News a story about six-year-old Paul Haley, who is slowly dying of cancer...
...Elivera Doud's home at 750 Lafayette Street, Denver, is the kind of solidly comfortable, nondescript dwelling in which millions of middle-aged Americans spent their childhood. Built of the grey-brown brick favored by Denver architects 40 years ago, it sits right up against its neighbors and is separated from the street only by a short, steep terrace and a patch of fine green lawn. Its wide porch is equipped with a glider and wicker chairs; red geraniums grow in low flower boxes on the railings. Last week, in this unremarkable survival of the parlor era, 75-year...
...Doud's son-in-law was not in a position to forget his job completely but he rapidly settled into a routine which successfully combined work and relaxation. Up every morning at 6:30, Ike Eisenhower shaved himself with a safety razor and danced noisily under a shower, first hot, then cold. Once dressed he headed downstairs to the large, old-fashioned dining room, whistling a tune as he went. His current favorite: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin', from the movie High Noon...
During its 62nd annual Continental Congress in Washington, the Daughters of the American Revolution announced that they had accepted proof that Private Benjamin Doud, born May 10, 1761 in Middletown, Conn., was a direct ancestor of Mamie Doud Eisenhower. The First Lady was forthwith welcomed into the D.A.R., and some 4,000 of the ladies trooped to the White House to welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed...
...tried to keep the party small and, as presidential trips go, was relatively successful. (Harry Truman liked to travel with an entourage of a dozen or more.) Besides Mamie and Mamie's mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, he took a staff of only seven: Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, White House Communications Chief Dewey Long, Personal Secretary Ann Whitman, Personal Valet John Moaney, Jim Hagerty's secretary, Mary Caffrey, and one White House military aide, Air Force Major William G. Draper, who was gainfully employed as the plane's pilot. A swarm of Secret...