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...were their husbands. In Independence, they got together for a stag poker game...
...slightly puzzled by Soviet Naval Lieutenant Nikolai G. Redin. The dark, handsome, 29-year-old lieutenant did his work as a Soviet Purchasing Commission liaison officer without a word about Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...
...Washington chuckled over a story of one of Harry Truman's nights out-a stag poker party at the Wardman Park Hotel apartment of his chubby, story-telling Adviser George Allen. Somehow the secret of the visit slipped. By the time the President arrived, every man, woman and child in the hotel had been well alerted. A small army of Secret Service men added to the confusion. Said one observer: "A midafternoon parade down Pennsylvania Avenue could have been kept just as quiet...
Mugwump. Webster always wanted and meant to be a political cartoonist. He shifted to such relatively universal phenomena as a boy's fondness for a dog, or a wife's inability to be gracious when her husband wants a stag vacation, because they syndicated more easily, raised fewer quarrels (of a sort that involved furious letters-to-the-editor) and made more money than cartoons which took a strong stand on the tariff. As for taking a weak stand on the tariff, or on any other political issue, that was for Webster out of the question. Good political...
Like most American men, Harry Truman loves a stag party. He also loves the Democratic Party. Last week the President brought the two loves together for a gala two days of eating, drinking, ribbing, horseshoe-pitching and politicking. The picnic grounds were the Jefferson Islands Club, three dots of green in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, a sumptuous hideaway dedicated to simon-pure Democracy. The President's playmates: more than 200 Democrats-Congressmen and Cabinet members, a few business bigwigs, a few tried & true old friends...