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Before going to Key West, Harry Truman had taken time off to dedicate a new children's wing of the Georgetown University Hospital. There he dropped in on three-year-old Sharon Meenehan, the victim of an automobile accident. Sharon, who had both legs in casts held straight up by overhead pulleys, was disappointed. She thought her mother had told her that "a present" was coming, not a "President." Next day, Harry Truman sent her a Mother Goose book. He wrote on the flyleaf: "Here's the present you thought you were getting. Get well in a hurry...
Arizona voters sent him back twice and elected him for a fourth term. A lean, wiry youngster in his 30s, he was a familiar figure on the Hill, bicycling to work from his Georgetown home, pitching for the Democrats in the annual House baseball game...
...Georgetown University's Dr. Edward B. Tuohy, who exhibited the hypospray at a Washington meeting last fortnight, foresaw a crop of new whodunit plots: "Why, with this gun someone could readily substitute poison for insulin, shoot his victim by pressing the hypospray gun against him in a crowd, and . . . the victim wouldn't know he'd been...
...States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed Dr. Charles C. Tansill, Texas-born history professor at Washington's Georgetown University...
With mixed feelings, University of California's President Robert G. Sproul called them "D.A.R.s" (Damned Average Raisers). Said Georgetown University Student John Mislan, 25, ex-ski trooper and veteran of four months' combat in Italy: "The majority of veterans are pushing their education too fast. They are running but they don't know what they are running...