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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They talked on Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Agreeing to Disagree | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...mansion in Beverly Hills, a beach house at Malibu, a ranch in the coastal hills, numerous bootleggers, and-with his pals Wallace Reid, Jack Pickford, Rod La Rocque-paddled happily with the tide. He got married and divorced three more times, and once during a party bought a yacht because everybody wanted to go for a boat ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...frivolous" construction was extended to bars, cocktail lounges, golf courses, swimming pools, tennis courts and yacht basins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Drastic Surgery | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...voice from the presidential yacht Williamsburg read off the week's most vapid comment on the election. "The President is gratified over some results and disappointed with others," said Press Secretary Charles Ross in a radio-telephone message to newsmen. "He was pleased by the size of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Not for Publication | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...five days, the newsmen bobbed behind the President's ship in a rented yacht in the hope that Mr. Truman would be a little more specific. They waited in vain. Near the end of the cruise through Chesapeake Bay, Charlie Ross, asked about it again, achieved an effect he probably did not intend: "The President has not commented on the elections in any extensive way-certainly not in any way that could be used for publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Not for Publication | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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