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...Best Years. The week gave him other chances to be plain Harry Truman, the man who lived in Independence, Mo. before he lived in the White House. On Memorial Day. after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he slipped off for a family party on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. And at week's end he motored to Chestertown, Md. to receive another honorary LL.D. (his eighth) and to address the graduates of tiny, ancient Washington College...
...Vught, in the soft light of the Dutch evening she did not seem just a plain old woman. In dead silence she walked 500 yards along the firing range where the Nazis used to practice. The last 25 yards of her way she had to struggle with a laurel wreath almost as tall as she. Among the lilies and tulips at the base of a 15-ft. cross commemorating those who died at Vught, Wilhelmina of The Netherlands laid her wreath...
...family was there, waiting for them, when Harry Truman, hat in hand and carefully keeping pace with Mrs. Roosevelt, came through the garden entrance and took an enormous wreath of white gladioli from the leathery hands of an Army sergeant. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt raised their heads high as they turned and advanced to the white marble block where a small flag flapped over a cup of bright red tulips. The President bent slowly, and, with his left hand, placed the wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave...
...first time, an event in Washington was televised over a brand-new 225-mile coaxial cable to New York.* In Manhattan's RCA building, New Yorkers saw General Dwight Eisenhower place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue, heard others make brief speeches. But comparing the image with newsphotos of the same event, they found it as blurred as an early Chaplin movie. Proud as television was, it admitted that the Washington-New York hookup would not be in regular use for six months, that a coast-to-coast network was still years away...
Abraham Lincoln (in bronze) had visitors in Manhattan's soapbox center, Union Square: a delegation from the National Republican Club, which deposited a wreath...