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...Boston hospital, Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and the Begum were recuperating from their operations (hers was gallstones, his goiter). Before starting for home, the Begum had one worry: would her two sons be too chubby to get into the Hopalong Cassidy outfits she has bought them...
Washington's "I Am an American Day" celebration went off smoothly this week without its two top guests of honor-President Truman and Hopalong Cassidy-even though it was postponed especially to ensure the presence of both (TIME, May 22). The celebration committee's chairman, Colonel Waldron Leonard, didn't blame the President. After all, Vice President Alben Barkley was ready & willing to appear as his standin...
...Washington and Colonel Leonard will be a long time forgiving Hopalong. "Everything was all set," says Leonard. "We had a telegram saying when Cassidy would arrive. Then comes this message from Detroit that we would have to pay $2,600 to fly his horse here. I told them we've got a hundred horses around Washington...
...when Hopalong insisted on his own horse, Colonel Leonard says he agreed to raise the money for Topper's airlift. Then the blow fell. "The next thing I knew there was a telegram from Cassidy saying he couldn't make it because of 'conflicting engagements.'." Unanimously backed by some 50 civic groups sponsoring the event (including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who are stuck with a medal struck for Hopalong), Colonel Leonard turned the matter over to an attorney. He gave an even more ominous indication of the public temper: "You know what my kids...
...other news of Hopalong Cassidy, see RADIO...