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...diary, Truman recalls the uproar over his letter to the Washington Post's Music Critic Paul Hume, who panned a Margaret Truman recital. Concludes the President and fond father: "Well, I've had a grand time this day. I've been accused of putting my baby who is the apple of my eye in a bad position. I don't think that is so. She doesn't either-thank the Almighty...
...cardinal took a swing at Baptist Harry Truman for his recent press conference remark that he is not very fond of the present government of Spain. It showed, said Cardinal Segura, a "dislike of the Spanish people." But he seemed even more concerned about Spain's own regime: "The spirit of Catholics is worried over fear that, under the pretext of politics, concessions gravely prejudicial to religion may be made...
...through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...
Unwilling Celebrity. Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan leaped into a car and set out for Brooklyn, where a jostling crowd of awed detectives were craning at Willie like bobby-soxers goggling at Frank Sinatra. Triumphantly, after suitable briefing and a fond look at Willie himself, the commissioner called in the press and announced: "We've just caught the Babe Ruth of bank robbers...
Westbrook Pegler, a Hearst columnist, is fond of recalling that 15 years ago the American Legion gave him a plaque for striking "some blows for 'Americanism.' " Last week Pegler struck some blows at the Legion...