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...Truman Street (which sports a Margaret Truman Launderette) and by Eisenhower Drive, which had been known, until the night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking golf balls in 50-to 70-yd. pitch shots. Then he walked along the waterfront of the naval base, talking to his brother about the submarines, destroyers, and the varieties of palm trees they passed by. "Hope you feel better, Ike," one Navyman called out. "Thank you," the President replied. "I certainly should feel well in this climate...
...want Perón]!" Revolution-wise, they seem to limit themselves so far to sabotage, even in last week's plotting. Squads of Peronistas, called "Resistance Commandos," are blamed for several recent attempts to wreck trains and for a series of spectacular fires on the Buenos Aires waterfront...
...ghosts, but there are other excellent entries, too. Samples: ¶ Charles ("Brickbat Charlie") Dorsey, a murderous debauchee, and his ripsnorting consort, a Hungarian slut named Rose Mataz ("Razzmatazz"), lived it up lecherously and lethally in Natchez-Under-the-Hill in the 18705 until Charlie did Rose wrong with a waterfront wench, and Rose did him in with chilling finesse...
Spokane-born Kenneth Callahan came to his peculiarly regional style the long way around. At 16 he was a good enough realist to have a watercolor of the Seattle waterfront hung in a major exhibition. In 1926 he gave up both local notoriety and his studies at the University of Washington to go to San Francisco, where, between part-time jobs as grease monkey, bank clerk and restaurant waiter, he worked on his style ("There was nobody there to tell me I was wonderful"). Back in Seattle he tried commercial art. (Says his wife: "Kenneth's heart just wasn...
...Left Hand of God (20th Century-Fox). In their tireless, tiresome efforts to make box-office capital out of the Roman Catholic priest, the movies have trotted out the crooning priest (Bing Crosby in Going My Way}, the labor priest (Karl Maiden in On the Waterfront), the whisky priest (Henry Fonda in The Fugitive...