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...improvement in the President's condition could be charted by what his physicians were letting him do. His diet became more flexible. In midweek, former Sergeant John Moaney, the President's valet, stewed up a kettle of Ike's famed two-day vegetable soup, brought it to the hospital for a lunch. Physicians permitted the addition of the first personal item to the hospital room since the President entered it. Up on a bureau, where Ike could see it, went a color picture of grandson David Eisenhower, wearing a black cowboy hat and holding a fishing...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...
...fare was robust: eggs fried sunny side up, rashers of beef bacon, sausages, and steaming mugs of coffee. At the breakfast table, the President was asked when he intended to drive back to Denver. Right away, said Ike: he was in a hurry, and he would leave his valet, ex-Sergeant John Moaney, behind to clean up. At 6:45 a.m., the presidential motorcade barreled through the ranch gates. A hundred minutes later Ike got out at his mother-in-law's home in Denver-70 miles away...
...President and his friends toured the farm, the place bustled with activity. Five men were busy building fences and weeding pastures. Near the house John Moaney, the President's valet, hoed a small garden. "You'll be a full-fledged farmer when you get through with your job down in Washington," said one of the guests. Replied the President: "Brother, I hope, I hope...
...silver lining. His hastily hired replacement, Cinecomedian Mickey (The Atomic Kid) Rooney, showed up, took one look at mild-mannered Wally Cox, signed him up for a forthcoming Rooney Enterprises movie, Gentleman's Gentleman. The paradoxical script calls for Rooney to play hero to Cox's valet...