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...Other publicly untrousered high officials were John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Marion Zioncheck, Eugene J. Keogh and James P. Richards. Adams, when President, was observed swimming in the Potomac. Roosevelt, when Pre-ident, frequently made trans-Potomac swims when the river got in the way of his point-to-point hikes around Washington. Representative Zioncheck of Washington state waded in Manhattan's Prometheus Fountain, a week later was arrested in an advanced state of undress in the capital. Brooklyn's Representative Keogh and South Carolina's Representative Richards were de-pantsed in a sleeping car in Spain...
...enough to hold him in line, but they were important because they showed the attitude of the responsible Republican leadership. Sound, clear, public voice was given to that attitude by Vermont's Republican Ralph Flanders in a speech on the Senate floor (see Col. 2) and by Pres ident Eisenhower...
...Cover) Reminiscing last week about the job that took him to the White House. Harry Truman told a piece of personal history in homely barnyard simile: "I tried to argue with those fellows at Chicago [in 1944] that I didn't want to be Vice Pres ident. I told them, 'Look at all the Vice Presidents in history. Where are they? They were about as useful as a cow's fifth teat.'" When he first said it, Harry Truman was roughly right; but today, any generalization about the uselessness of Vice Presi dents falls over...
...Ewing, 53, president and board chairman since 1950, who remains board chairman. Elliott, who continues as president of Greenville Mills, Inc., a Smith subsidiary, has also headed General Bottlers, Inc. and the margarine-making John F. Jelke Co. He came to Smith in 1951 as administrative vice pres ident and treasurer, will hold on to his treasury post...
...pigeon turned out in the center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...