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Fellowship. It was the big night of the week for Harry Truman. He took up a position at the door of a private dining room at the Shoreham Hotel and shook hands with all comers for an hour; by then virtually every Democrat of any consequence in the capital had entered and had wormed into the press around the 50-ft. bar. As the company began gathering at white-clothed tables for a buffet dinner, the room was noisy with hoarse laughter and male voices...
...Shah repaid President Truman's hospitality with a lavish dinner for 800 in the main' ballroom of the Shoreham-Hotel; the Iranian Embassy was too small to hold the dinner there. Said he: "The President is one of the finest men I ever...
Last week the Washington Daily News got around to a critique of one of the country's better-known piano players. Wrote News Guest Columnist (and Shoreham Hotel Bandleader) Barnee Breeskin, fresh from half an hour's "elbow-range" observation of Harry Truman...
...Republican Convention all over again-the same faces, the same factions-only this time the forces of Thomas E. Dewey, so cockily in control at Philadelphia, were in retreat. One hundred and two Republican national committeemen had gathered in Washington's Shoreham Hotel to choose a new party chairman...
Doggedly, next day they went sightseeing. That night they trooped into the Shoreham for the reception given by Senator Howard J. McGrath. They had one more whoop left; that was for the President when he marched...