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...John Maragon, the wily Washington five-percenter, an ex-Kansas City bootblack who traded on gall and his friendship with Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan, was indicted for perjury by a Washington grand jury on charges of lying to a Senate subcommittee last July when he said he had never done business with the government for commissions...
...Admitted that his reducing contest with Military Aide Harry Vaughan and Brigadier General Wallace Graham (TIME, Nov. 28) had ended in a draw: no one had lost any weight...
...Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins) drew the top price-$600-at a charity auction sale of amateur art. His oil painting, Lion Couchant and Worried, was bought by his wife. Path of Investigation, an item whipped up for the occasion by White House Aide Harry H. Vaughan, went...
...month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation since last March...
...Washington luncheon given for him by veterans' groups, Presidential Aide Major General Harry H. Vaughan seemed fully recovered from the Senate's five-percenter inquiry. Boomed Vaughan: "The only two people I have to please are Mr. Truman and Mrs. Vaughan . . . I am considered in many circles to be unethical and I am sure I will continue to be, but I am going to continue to be the way I have been...