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Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly ("You are certainly a good tucker," said Edith Bolling Gait Wilson as he patted a lap robe around her), devout (he came to believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result...
Enter Mrs. Gait. The first Mrs. Wilson had just died. The President was encircled by his daughters, especially Miss Margaret, who was unmarried. "Miss Margaret ran with a crowd of liberals, and was apt to show up with all sorts of long-haired, wild-eyed persons as her guests. She also sang, in a soprano voice that was not too good. Often it flooded the White House with its questionable beauty, creating a strange tension among the members of the staff...
Then Mrs. Gait appeared. "She's a looker," said the presidential doorkeeper. "He's a goner," said the presidential valet. Sometimes as the Colonel dutifully trailed the lovers on their walks, they would glance back at him, "she with the frank laughter of a woman who is enjoying the predicament of both men. She was having a wonderful time...
...Churchill had to leave the building by a side door, come in another door to a little anteroom. Truman and Stalin were in other anterooms. Complicated signals set them all in coordinated motion. Stalin would roll in with his bearish gait; Churchill plodded; Clement Attlee walked sedately ; Truman almost skipped in (which was all right because his anteroom was just a little farther away...
...views on women [TIME, June 25] will be most highly resented by women serving in the armed forces. Very few of them consider that they have sacrificed their individuality because they are wearing clothes identical with thousands of other women's. Our physical training programs improve posture and gait without depriving us of personality...