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...friend, unused to bitterness in Henry, by remarking that he was beginning to think that Harold Ickes was getting a little old to go on as a Cabinet member. Toward the end of the week his temper flared in an unscheduled exhibition of his jujitsu skill. In the Wardman Park Hotel lobby he refused to give Cameraman Robert Woodsum permission to take his picture, then turned and ran. Woodsum chased the Vice President. Wallace whirled around, hoisted the 180-lb. cameraman in a spread-eagle above his shoulders, then pinned him to the floor. But after he had cooled...
...Henry Wallace still turns out at 6 o'clock to get in a few sets of tennis. On the courts of Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, he plays (lefthanded) a hard-plugging but ungraceful game with his sister or brother-in-law, Swiss Minister Charles Brugmann, occasionally matches strokes with other grade B-minus players like Nelson Rockefeller, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal or Justice Hugo Black...
...long past midnight. In his Wardman Park Hotel apartment, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
...Willard (last stop, after appearances at the Stage Door Canteen, Mayflower, Shoreham, Wardman Park, Lincoln Colonnades), Eleanor Roosevelt long-legged it through a corridor smothered with bunting. There her evening was to reach its climax: cutting of a 200-lb. birthday cake. Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen greeted...
...Wardman Park Hotel. Next day Lewis walked through a side door of the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, strode up one flight to 200-B, the suite where Messrs. Fairless, Purnell and Grace awaited him and his aides...