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...long that Presidential Physician Howard Snyder finally stalked into the conference room and ordered a luncheon break so that his patient could get some rest. While the meetings went on inside Laurel Lodge, marines and Secret Service men patrolled the woods, and a Filipino mess boy stood on the porch with the President's hat and coat held in readiness. At the end of his busy week (see below), the President went to Washington for a physical checkup...
President Eisenhower's medical chart continued to show an upward curve. For the first time, he sat up in a wheelchair and was pushed around the sun-drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
Next, while the voters pressed close to the porch rail to watch, the official ceremoniously counted the blank ballots. Then he picked up the varnished wooden ballot box, held it aloft like a magician doing a trick. "Is it empty?" he asked. "Empty, empty," came the chorused reply. "There is no cheating?" "No cheating," chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched...
...Editor Don Moore concedes that sponsors are begging for "upbeat" plays, but argues that it is simply because "morbid themes were overdone and a natural reaction set in." Writer Rod (Patterns) Serling agrees: "Plays of TV's dark brown era-they were usually set on a decaying front porch of a Southern mansion-went down deep but they were run into the ground. Maybe a change is for the better...
...airport. "Hi, Mommy," she grinned. "It's sure good to be home." From the airport crowd came an inquisitive voice: "What do you plan to do on your vacation, Mamie?" Replied Mrs. Eisenhower, with a blissful grin: "I'm just going to sit on the front porch...