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Chicken Again. At the First Baptist Church he listened attentively to the sermon, dropped a $1 bill into the collection plate. Lunch (by the Presbyterian ladies) was Missouri ham. The schedule called for a nap after lunch. But a bunch of "40-and-8" Legionnaires were whooping it up on the street around a mock locomotive, and calling for Harry Truman. He mounted the contraption, posed for many pictures. Then someone yelled: "Ring the bell." Harry Truman yanked the rope, clanged the bell hard and long. The crowd was delighted. So was the President...
...Flagpole. On one of the islands, in front of the long, white Colonial clubhouse, the picnicking and politicking began at once. On the greensward facing a shallow bay was a long tent-at one end a beer and bourbon bar, at the other end a food bar (crabmeat, ham, potato salad and a barrel of oysters). Harry Truman, glass in hand, sat under a flagpole and chatted, called out many a first name...
General Vaughan compared his boss with President Roosevelt. "It's just like having a fancy dinner of caviar over a long period," he said. "But sometimes you like to get back to ham and eggs...
What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base coaching box, he cups his big paws and joyously bellows out the count after each pitch. He wiggles and waddles back & forth, lets out an occasional piercing whistle, mimics rival pitchers...
...which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...