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Rambling and reminiscing, the President recalled that he himself had once been a boy editor for the Independence (Mo.) high school paper. It was called The Gleam, "after that admonition in Tennyson's poem-'After it, follow it, follow the Gleam.' "* Then Truman, who seldom misses a chance to upbraid the press, got in a typical dig: "We do have . . . some publications which do not care very much for the truth ... I hope that if any of you become editors of great publications . . . you will stick strictly to the truth and nothing but the truth...
...lifeboat came back with about $1,100 (raised by passing the hat among the passengers), and with one of the Wing Sang's three American passengers: Edward Stansbury, deputy chief of the U.S. Information Service on Formosa. In the gleam of a flashlight, the pirates counted the money and grumbled that it was not enough. Back went the lifeboat for more, and returned with approximately...
...professional entertainers as Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, who emceed the show, and ex-Pug Buddy Boer, who crooned: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey, who posed in an Uncle Sam hat, with an "I Like Ike" button on his lapel, a raddled drumstick in hand and a campaign gleam...
London's Institute of Contemporary Arts announced an international contest pretty sure to put a gleam in the eye of sculptors everywhere. Thanks to an anonymous donor, the institute said, it will pass out $30,000 in prizes for the best sculpture on the specified subject, "The Unknown Political Prisoner." Entries, due in September, will be sifted by regional juries throughout the world; final judging will be in London. Only snag so far: Professor Vladimir Kemenov of Moscow's Academy of Arts, invited to represent Russia on the panel of nine judges, has neglected to reply...
...both camps assiduously fanned the old question: "Is Ike really a Republican?" Illinois' Paul Douglas last week reported Ike "the overwhelming favorite of the great masses of the American people" and repeated his hope "that he will be the Democratic nominee." Some top Administration Democrats got a wild gleam in their eyes and talked of a "plan." The plan presupposes that Taft will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected Democrats will begin calling for Eisenhower to lead the nation against Taftism. Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence...