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Doris Duke ("Richest-Girl-in-the-World") Cromwell, after five years of Spartan wartime exile, was back in Shangri-La, her marble-&-granite palace off Honolulu's Diamond Head. The short-time Hearst correspondent (she sent some earnest stories from Rome) flew in with eleven pieces of baggage and a couple of house guests, settled down among her waterfalls and fountains for a long rest. Had she plans for a future in journalism? Her considered reply: "Newspaper work is interesting...
...civil servants streamed out of Government offices shutting down for the four-day Fourth of July weekend authorized by Congress, Mr. & Mrs. Truman left the White House in a car for President Roosevelt's Shangri-La, a lodge in the Catoctin Mountains, 60 miles from Washington. With them was unobtrusive Lieut. Commander William Rigdon, up from the ranks, now assistant to the naval aide. There were no other attendants. There was no motorcade and no newsmen. At the lodge the Trumans had fried chicken for supper, took in a movie, were abed...
...above was cut by fourscore planes, many of them pilotless, radio-controlled drones flown from Eniwetok or the carriers Shangri-La and Saidor. Worker planes kept these in their appointed rounds...
...other tired executive, Harry Truman had been glad to escape for a few hours. He had spent a monotonous week plowing through his workbaskets and the daily round of presidential chores. After the picnic, he spent the rest of the week end at Franklin Roosevelt's old Shangri-La hideout at Thurmont...
Hope: "I was Shangri...