Word: presented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, TIME correspondents in Chicago, Los Angeles, Hot Springs, Ark., San Francisco, New Orleans and Naples (Gangster Lucky Luciano's current retreat), and Researcher Anne Lopatin were doing their own digging into the Costello past and present. Much of it was the business of tracking down rumors which often proved to be untrue, and triple-checking the facts. In the midst of his New Orleans investigation Correspondent Ed Ogle answered his telephone and the following conversation took place...
...Shah from Teheran, the President spared no pains to entertain his guest. Harry Truman greeted the young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys to the nation as well, along with a little homily on the uses of democracy...
Then the newlyweds climbed into the shiny black Oldsmobile convertible which Barkley had given his bride as a wedding present, and headed for Barkley's old Kentucky home (The Angles) and points south. They would be back in Washington, said the Veep, in time for the second session of the 81st Congress. In the meantime, "We are just going to strike out, stop when we please, where we please. Where we are going may not be a military secret, but it's a romantic...
When Davenport goes into Barron's this week, its present editor, George Shea, crack corporation analyst, will become financial editor of the Wall Street Journal. The two will work closely together. Davenport would like to see Barron's slowly become a more influential journal of political and economic opinion, but is mum about specific changes. Says he: "There's no magic in this business. It'll come out in the doing...
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