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...Love You." On the way to Independence the ex-President took his first crack at being "plain Mr. Truman." Leaving the presidential car Ferdinand Magellan, which Ike had lent him for the occasion, Truman strolled through the train. He popped his head in at the door of a Pullman compartment and seemed delighted when the couple inside failed to recognize him immediately. Said he: "Things are getting back to normal when that happens." Pushing on into a coach car, he told reporters: "This is the first time I have been in a coach in eight years, and in the future...
Sure enough, when the Ferdinand Magellan rolled into Independence, a crowd of 8,500 jammed the little red brick Missouri Pacific station and the surrounding streets. The Eagles were there in snappy red & blue capes, the Ararat Shriners sported their fezzes, and the boys from Captain Truman's old Battery D wore red arm bands. Cried Harry Truman: "It's magnificent. We're back home now for good . . . After I get finished with the job Mrs. Truman has for me-unpacking-I'll be open for dinner engagements. I may be hungry...
...Washington's Union Station late last week rolled the presidential railroad car, the "Ferdinand Magellan." Accompanied by daughter Margaret, Harry Truman was off on his first major whistle-stop tour of the 1952 campaign, an 8,soo-mile trip which will carry him through 24 northern and western states...
...less successful in his effort to have the stars renamed so that people could remember them better. He wrote a book to urge that Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Mintaka be called by such names as Nelson or Columbus or Magellan...
...first settlers, who, some theorize, may have come by land bridges from the Asiatic mainland, were aboriginal Negrito pygmies. Then, 6,000 years ago, came Indonesians in boats, to push the Negritos into the interior; the Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip, who became...