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...tired executive, Harry Truman had been glad to escape for a few hours. He had spent a monotonous week plowing through his workbaskets and the daily round of presidential chores. After the picnic, he spent the rest of the week end at Franklin Roosevelt's old Shangri-La hideout at Thurmont...
...national political temper portended a roisterous day of balloting. On Luzon, cub planes buzzed in the skies, looking for suspicious gatherings. Jeeps loaded with soldiers patrolled the rutted roads. Elderly, cautious President Sergio Osmena remained secluded in Manila's sprawling white Malacafian Palace. An armed guard surrounded the hideout of the opposing candidate-flamboyant, fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuna...
...nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
...remembers the Thanksgiving morning in 1902 when a moving van drew up to 26 Jones Street, which had been an anarchist hideout on "the Street of 40 Thieves." She and her Russian-born husband had picked this vermin-filled, draughty place for a settlement house. Greenwich Villagers peering suspiciously from windows figured "we were just another family moving in," Mrs. Sim says. They were glad to be accepted that way; "we did not want to be regarded as strangers bent on uplift...
...Chrysanthemums still smoldered. To the Allied Commander from one Hiromichi Kumazawa, self-styled "Emperor" and 19th direct lineal descendant of Go-Daigo, came a petition requesting a full and impartial investigation of his claim to be Japan's rightful sovereign. To the pretender's "secret hideout" went LIFE Correspondent Richard E. Lauterbach. His report...