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President Truman had already sent his personal plane, the Sacred Cow, to Mexico City for President Aleman, and arranged to have an escort of twelve 6-293 pick it up at New Orleans. He would greet the Mexican party at the airport with most of his Cabinet, an honor guard from the 82nd Airborne Division and a 21-gun salute. President Aleman would address a joint session of the Congress, stay at least one night at the White House, travel to Mount Vernon on the presidential yacht Williams burg, and use the presidential Pullman for a trip to New York...
Five hundred urchins will enjoy a matinee of Boston's best baseball under the direction of Phillips Brooks House members today when 50 students will each escort ten settlement house children to the game at Braves Field...
...Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis Avila Binder, Maximino's son by another wife, charged that...
...worried about a new super-secret jet plane which the Nazis are about to put into production. He knows where its factories are hidden, also that his 6-175 could blast them sky-high were they given a chance. But the factories are deep inside Germany, far beyond fighter-escort range. To bomb them out will be near murder for the bombers, both going and coming...
Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...