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...Went to Washington's Griffith Stadium with Mrs. Truman to see a doubleheader between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators. He sat patiently under an umbrella after rain stopped play in the fourth inning, munched a hot dog, and had a bottle of pop. But after an hour, Weather Prophet Truman gave up and left. His hunch was right. Another hour passed before the sun came out and the game was resumed...
...talk from a dry room under the stands, but when he heard that half of his audience had stuck through the rain, he turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed hat, and, with rain splattering on his bald head, began his maiden political speech...
...sunny day in Bucharest, as the story goes, a friend stopped Ana Pauker in the street and asked: "Ana, why are you carrying an umbrella? It's not raining." Replied Rumania's No. i Communist: "It's raining in Moscow. I heard it on the radio." Last week fat Ana Pauker had her umbrella up; it was raining horribly in Moscow...
...fully awake, and his best hours run on from then till 5 or 6. Around the circus he wears riding clothes, but towards evening he assumes a somber elegance. In New York he goes on the town dressed like a career diplomat, sporting a cane or tightly rolled umbrella, black hat in the Anthony Eden style, gloves carried but not worn and suits cut in the English fashion...
...sunny California, some rain is always falling into the lives of Democrats. Last month the party's high command in Washington decided to raise an umbrella over the longtime split between the party's left wing, led by James Roosevelt, and its right wing, led by wealthy Rancher E. George Luckey. Beneath the umbrella, veteran Congressman Harry Sheppard put together a 76-member slate of "regular" delegates to the national convention, fusing the left and the right. They were held together by Sheppard's firm promise that Harry Truman would stay in California's June...