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After a monthlong, "part-time" physical going-over at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Md., Vice President Alben W. Berkley checked out with the news that he had trimmed down 22 Ibs. (to 190), hoped to lose five more by giving up candy...
...nation. Its effect, as many signers agreed, was that his prestige abroad was seriously damaged at a critical moment in diplomatic affairs. This week, dragging the G.O.P.'s clattering repudiation behind him, Acheson flew off to the Brussels conference aboard Truman's personal plane, the Independence. Alben Barkley and George Marshall were on hand to see him off, and Harry Truman sent word that Acheson has "my complete confidence...
...Secret Service in Washington let it be known that Vice President Alben Berkley no longer travels about alone. He has agreed to have four bodyguards "if they keep out of sight." Another new Secret Service customer: Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...
Among those selected as the "best pajamaed males in the U.S. in 1950" (by pajama manufacturers): Vice President Alben Berkley, Dwight Eisenhower, Erroll Flynn, Ezzard Charles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leopold Stokowski...