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Born. To Major John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 33, only son of President Dwight Eisenhower, and Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 29; their fourth child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Jean. Weight...
...arose early, scanned newspapers and prepared to go downstairs for the first time in seven weeks. At 8:25 a.m., wearing a camel's-hair polo coat and soft brown fedora, he stepped smilingly out of Fitzsimons Army Hospital, accompanied by Mamie and her mother, Mrs. Doud. As patients shouted goodbye and flashbulbs popped, Ike entered his limousine and was whisked off to Lowry Air Force Base under an unexpected outburst of sunshine...
...medical bulletins eliminated the phrase "without complications." He shaved standing up; barber Martin Himmelsbach cut his hair. He phoned the Doud home to say hello to Mamie's mother. With his painting easel, he sat out in the bright-lit sundeck foyer in a straightback chair, copying a recent LIFE photograph of his grandson, David, which showed the boy in a black ten-gallon hat with a fishing rod over his shoulder...
...heartburn. "Boy," he said with a grin, "those raw onions are sure backing up on me." But the indigestion-if it was indigestion-seemed minor, and Ike finished the round, carding a flashy 40 (he had shot an 84 on the morning 18). After a quiet dinner at the Doud home that evening, the President retired early. By 10 p.m.-17 hours after he had gotten up-Ike was in bed and asleep in his second-floor bedroom. It had been a long, active...
...Murray Snyder summoned the press for a terse announcement: "The President has had a mild coronary thrombosis. He has been taken to Fitzsimons Army Hospital." 2:35 P.M. President Eisenhower, supported by General Snyder and Colonel Byron Pollock, chief of Fitzsimons' cardiac section, left the Doud house, walked to his limousine, and was driven to the hospital. Mrs. Eisenhower remained at home...