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...palatial, showplace home of the late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
Military Strategy. On the second day, in the spacious, book-lined living room of the Holmes house, there was a brief military conference (90 minutes) with General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral William F. Halsey of the Third Fleet and Lieut. General Robert C. (Nellie) Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy...
...rambling, 80-year-old home at 219 North Delaware St. in Independence. At 4:30 p.m. next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went on. It was one of the biggest nights...
P.A.C.'s more important politicking was done in Labor Leader Phil Murray's luxurious quarters in the "Bungalow" on the Morrison Hotel's top (42nd) floor. To this spacious $55-a-day suite-living room (with grand piano), dining room, bar, kitchen, three bedrooms, and even a place to put a barber chair-came Vice President Wallace, 45 minutes after he reached Chicago. He climbed up the back stairs from the 41 st floor to escape attention. Here also came Senators Guffey and Pepper, and all but two of the six Cabinet members who attended the convention...
...spacious, broiling, tented square behind his rambling mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed...