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...dazzling spring afternoon last week, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower joined 27,000-odd other Washingtonians at Griffith Stadium for the opening baseball game between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees. They sat on either side of old (84) Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, and the President satisfied tradition by throwing out the first ball of the season.- On his left hand, he wore a fielder's mitt which Griffith handed him. Ike, using an odd type of knuckle grip, threw the ball to Yankee Pitcher Johnny Sain so quickly that some photographers missed it. "One more...
...Wonderful Home Run." The game, an unexpected thriller, caught up both Ike and Mamie in the excitement that it provided. By the time Washington took the lead, 3-2, Mr. & Mrs. Eisenhower had each accepted sticks of chewing gum from Griffith. In the third inning, they both had Cokes in paper cups, and Mamie dipped into a box of Cracker Jack as she watched the game. When the Yankees tied it up, 3-3 in the ninth, the excitement in the presidential box mounted perceptibly, and in the tenth, when Washington's Mickey Vernon finally polished off the game...
...Thomas Griffith, TIME'S Foreign News Editor, is quite right in saying that the IndoChina war "is [still] a colonial war ... in the minds of some Frenchmen . . ." The French government recognizes the undeniable fact that the days of colonialism are dead, and henceforth, French foreign policy must be formed accordingly. France, "the sick man of Europe," is fighting for exactly the same values that America fought for in Korea...
From French Union military headquarters at Hanoi, TIME'S Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith last week cabled this report...
...GRIFFITH...