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...Tony Vaccaro, Associated Press correspondent, was looking forward to his trip to Rio next month with President Truman. But he did not want to take a yellow-fever shot, just the same. He had been told that shots were optional. Now, as he was shoved into the White House clinic, he cried, "I don't believe in shots!" A White House physician stared at him coldly. Vaccaro was told that the President had changed the rules; all reporters had to be immunized...
...Sneeze, One Paragraph. The correspondents have something more to gripe about than the White House colorlessness. They are exceedingly jealous of any signs of presidential favoritism-and there have been some. On the President's trip to Independence, fortnight ago, Harry Truman invited A.P.'s Tony Vaccaro and U.P.'s Merriman Smith to join in a poker game. The I.N.S. reporter (a substitute) was left out, presumably because the President did not know him very well. Also left out were specials like the New York Herald Tribune's Washington chief, Bert Andrews, the Chicago...
Getting into a White House Cadillac, he spied Associated Pressman Ernest B. Vaccaro, who had been assigned to watch the Truman apartment. "C'mon in, Tony," said the President. Tony hopped into the Presidential car. Driving down Connecticut Avenue, President Truman made it clear that he had no illusions about the immense difficulty of his job or about the greatness of the leader he followed. He was frightened, but he was also determined. "There have been few men in all history the equal of the man into whose shoes I am stepping. I pray God I can measure...
Died. Felix Philip Vaccaro, 77, youngest of New Orleans' famed, fruit-rich Vaccaro brothers; after long illness; in New Orleans. With his brothers Joseph and the late Lucca, bull-necked Felix built a fortune of many millions on the basis of a schooner load of Honduran bananas. By the '30s the silent Italian trio were powers in (largely Louisianian) orange groves, ships, chemicals, banks, presses, oil, ice, hotels, real estate, insurance...
Washington Irving Moss, president of New Orleans' receivershipped Union Indemnity Co. (TIME, Jan. 16), resigned as board chairman of Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. Succeeded by his old associate, Felix P. Vaccaro, he will continue as a vice president "to devote myself whole heartedly to the ... company." Reason: "As president of Union Indemnity ... I have been subjected to some unfriendly criticism, which, no matter how unjustified, might reflect itself disadvantageously upon Standard Fruit...