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After breakfast he usually slipped into his swimming trunks for a few hours of splashing in the Atlantic, and a session in the hot Florida sun. In the afternoons, he napped, thumbed through state papers, or got worried word from Administration leaders in Washington. In the evenings he usually took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Don't Go Away Mad | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mamas") Tucker admitted to being a landmark. To the New York Public Library she presented all the personal theatrical scrapbooks of her 43 years of trouping (more than 200 of them, in three trunks and a wicker hamper). They would be filed in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Idle Hours | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Next morning, in a slatch in the storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Last Voyage | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Mornings, the President lay abed until 7:30 a.m.-far beyond his usual rising hour. With Adviser Clark Clifford, Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, and Senate Secretary-to-be Les Biffle, he walked daily over to the secluded enlisted men's beach. There he donned a pair of trunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Season In the Sun | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

The challengers, in crimson trunks, are Robinson O. Everett '47 and Paul A. Nurick '45, both second year law students. Yesterday they dispatched their demands by letter to New Haven.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Out to Out-Eat Hickman . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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