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...post-election emotion, few could mistake Truman for an inspiring leader in the pattern of Churchill or Roosevelt. Many remembered the bewildered, fumbling Harry Truman groping through the tumbling squalls of the postwar economy, often seeming to dismiss his problems as jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina, we call him mule head...
...DEALERS-Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...
Depression has been a gloomy sunset gun for many U.S. yacht-owners but it has in no way curtailed Commodore Winthrop Williams Aldrich's enjoyment of his favorite sport. If the Walloping Windowblind was a capital ship for an ocean trip, so is Chase National Bank, world's largest, of which Mr. Aldrich became president when it merged with Equitable Trust, whose counsel he had been for many years and of which he had become president in 1929. Son of Rhode Island's Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, he did his first sailing off Warwick...
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