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Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument one day last week, Harry Truman, forgetting for the moment his inter-party struggles, spoke familiarly and engagingly of his childhood, of the Republic, and of his predecessors in the White House. Just 100 years ago, the cornerstone of the monument had been laid. In Harry Truman's hand was a gavel, used in the 1848 ceremonies attended by President Polk and used before that by George Washington when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol...
Francis Scott (The Star-Spangled Banner) Key was finally about to take his place in distinguished company: Congress voted to build him a monument in Washington...
...among the real-estate-for-sale ads: "Approximately 30-year-old well-built ranchhouse . . . 30 acres . . . No garage, no barn . . . heating apparatus out of order . . . 12-party line . . . no bus . . . plenty of squirrels. Owner paid only $32,000 . . . He is keeping six or seven acres for himself as a monument to his real-estate sharpness. Will sell balance for $35,000. If interested have head examined, or telephone...
...plump, kindly Robert Morss Lovett is an aged, living monument to the courage, the warm heart-and the poor judgment-of one brand of U.S. liberalism. All Our Years, his expectantly awaited autobiography ("some 23 publishers have expressed a blind but generous faith in this book"), is chiefly important as a record of his personal decency and kindliness. It is the account of a great good will expansive enough to regard even U.S. Communists as well-intentioned...
They topped off the day with a rally at the foot of the Washington Monument, where Paul Robeson sang Ol' Man River and everybody cheered the name of Henry Wallace...