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Private Life: Wife, Cécile Bonnefoy; two sons, Pierre, 22, second lieutenant in a Moroccan rifle regiment (and also a St. Cyr graduate), and Michel, 13. Fond of cigars, bridge, music-hall ditties, dancing (but no jitterbugging...
Scornful of watercolors at first (he called them "whoring," compared to the "married state" of oil painting), he became increasingly fond of them as he grew older. But he still deprecated himself: "A watercolor is nearly always a fluke. If you go on doing them, flukes will happen a little oftener...
...certainly does, replied the President, snapping his head for emphasis. He is just as fond of General Eisenhower as he can be. He thinks the general is one of the great men produced by World War II, and thinks the President has shown that by giving the general the most important job available for his ability...
Without batting an eye, Oracle Truman said he hadn't said that at all. As he had just said, he is very fond of General Eisenhower. But he doesn't think the general is a candidate for President on the Democratic ticket. And, said Harry Truman, he couldn't very well help General Eisenhower be a candidate on the Republican ticket, because that wouldn't do the general any good. Anyway, he had another candidate for the Republican ticket: Senator Taft...
...fans in Chicago's North Shore Ravinia Park. The audience had its share of highbrows, but scattered on the lawn near the stage were hundreds of seriously attentive youngsters. Other quartets, e.g., the Paganini, Pro Arte, Griller and Juilliard, fiddle for equally enthusiastic audiences from Fond du Lac to Fort Worth...