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Brisk and smiling, President Truman strode into the House of Representatives this week to face a joint meeting of the Congress and read his annual message on the State of the Union. He was speaking to the critics of his foreign policy-though not always too clearly-and over their heads, more clearly, to the "Soviet imperialists" who were trying to subvert the world with their "destructive works...
...morning last spring a worried young Broadway producer strode aboard a Los Angeles-New York plane with TIME'S May 1st issue clutched in his hand. For more than a year handsome Ernie Martin had scouted movies, radio, TV and theater, but he could not find the right soprano to play the mission doll in his new musical, Guys &Dolls. The girl had to be able to sing like an old trouper and look like a teen-aged angel...
...Monday; Washington shrilled with their guesses and contradictions. That day on the dot of 4, small and anonymous-looking in an unpressed grey suit, the Prime Minister of Britain walked into the White House and shook hands with the President. A few minutes later, Clement Attlee and Harry Truman strode down the corridor and into the green-draped Cabinet Room where Franklin Roosevelt had consulted with Winston Churchill in other crisis days...
...Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...
Three days later Wu made his first appearance before a U.N. meeting. Wu and two of his assistants strode into a morning session of the Political & Security Committee while Russian Delegate Andrei Vishinsky was charging the U.S. with aggression against Formosa. With a broad smile, Vishinsky interrupted his speech to welcome "the legal representatives of the government of China...