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...Invited his Cabinet to a sport-shirt Cabinet meeting and picnic at Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat near Thurmont...
...List. In Thurmont, Md., burglars broke into Gordon P. Gaver's snake farm, made off with a king snake, a grey rat snake, two corn snakes, a five-foot boa constrictor...
Harry Truman has never cared for Shangri-La, Franklin Roosevelt's old vacation hangout in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont, Md., but last week, under Mrs. Truman's urging, he reluctantly consented to pay it a weekend visit. It was a gloomy trip. The weather was enough to make even a President say, "I told you so»-the temperature went down to 40°, it rained & rained, and daughter Margaret developed a miserable toothache. When Harry Truman got back home, White House aides guessed that Shangri-La would never see him again...
...Harry Truman had been glad to escape for a few hours. He had spent a monotonous week plowing through his workbaskets and the daily round of presidential chores. After the picnic, he spent the rest of the week end at Franklin Roosevelt's old Shangri-La hideout at Thurmont...