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Most of the week Truman's attractive, homespun side was on public view. Longtime foes were temporarily softened by his warmth and perkiness. Democrats were stirred to nostalgia by his last annual economic report. Said Harry, conjuring up visions of Franklin Roosevelt: "In the mid-1930s, it was no exaggeration to speak of one-third of a nation ill-fed, ill-clad and ill-housed. Since then, the one-third has been reduced to one-fifth or maybe less...
...inauguration day grew near last week, however, hundreds of Washingtonians had high hopes for a change not only in the capital's political atmosphere but in that of the White House itself; Mamie Eisenhower is fondly expected to touch off a social renaissance and to lend a new warmth to the affairs of the presidency...
Carefully, artfully, the Prime Minister stressed the casual nature of it all. It just happened, he said, that he was on his way to a holiday in Jamaica to "soak up some sun and some warmth-naturally I looked in to pay my respects to the President and President-elect . . . It's just a meeting of old friends," he insisted. "We've met perhaps a hundred times before . . ." No, he couldn't say what he and Ike might talk about. "I've no idea. It's to be just a private, informal conversation between...
...Warmth and cheer in the form of the latest steel and plywood prefab huts were delivered in 5,404 enormous crates; the G.I.s started to assemble them...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Julius Patzak, tenor; the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; London). These six songs were intended as Mahler's ninth symphony, but a personal superstition made him forgo the title. The dusky warmth of Ferrier's singing, the bright clarity of Patzak's, and the lurid orchestral colors run the gamut of gaiety and sadness. A definitive recording...