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...Ham & Eggs" & Harry. He campaigned without fear against "Ham & Eggs" in 1939 when it was in its full flower in California. He also posed-while party workers wrung their hands-for pictures with Harry Bridges, then the state's No. 1 Bogeyman...
...Prepared to attend a luncheon of the tired people who worked out the steel wage-price formula. Menu feature: a Missouri ham. Said one alarmed wag: "I hope he doesn't appoint it to something...
Harry Truman held up some G.I.-drawn war scenes for all the White House reporters to see. The drawings were wonderful, he said, because they were done by artists who believe in an infinite capacity for taking pains. No daubs, he added, grinning-none of that ham-&-eggs school...
Somebody asked him what a ham-&-egg artist is. The President illustrated it with a southpaw pitch, as if throwing something at an imaginary canvas. Their paintings, he said, look as if they stood off and threw...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, West-tinghouse Electric Corp. treated the press to cocktails, Florida pineapple, breast of chicken on Virginia ham, baked Alaska. As a savory, it brought in 1) its postwar appliance models and 2) a brand new president. Most impressive among the new products was a "laundromat" which automatically fills itself, washes clothes, rinses and drys them, empties, then cleans itself...