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...times he came close to being nonplused. One of three Alaskan delegates- a small, weatherbeaten man named Gerrit Snider-strode up to him, clutching a bundle wrapped in newspapers. "Would you appoint a native Alaskan, a real sourdough governor of Alaska?" the visitor demanded. Startled, Ike paused a moment, and then said yes. Snider immediately unwrapped the parcel and yanked out a two-skin sable choker...
...soldier, whose oratory on returning from the Far East had stirred the nation as it seldom is stirred by the spoken word, strode solemnly to the convention rostrum. The hushed hall waited, in mass expectancy, for another memorable address. Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army and one of the great orators of his day, did not disappoint his audience...
Washington's Capitol guides were just beginning their chants one day last week when a tiny, blue-eyed woman with curly grey hair strode into the rotunda. While sightseers gawked, she hopped spryly on to a roped-off platform, sat down on John Trumbull's huge (13 by 18 ft.) Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, which was lying flat there, and started touching up Trumbull's paint. Marie Francisca Kalnoky, a full-fledged, two-castle Hungarian countess who fled Europe in 1949, was busy at her latest job: giving some of the Capitol's historic paintings their...
With only an hour to spare, U. S. Charge d'Afairés Allan Lightner strode in to hand
...woman who showed up with a bright red "I Like Ike" parasol drew not a glance from the man she liked. Instead, Ike punctiliously went through the military forms: he stood at hand salute during his 17-gun honors, shook hands down the civilian and military ranks, and strode briskly across the ramp to review the honor guard. When he was led up to the microphones with Mamie on his arm, Ike grinned and said casually: "As I suppose is very natural under the circumstances, all lesser emotions are drowned out in the overwhelming realization that we're home...