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...Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn launched the evening speechmaking. The bald, benign and beaming Speaker hoped that the Republicans would win some congressional seats and "give us a two-party system." As a 67-year-old bachelor to a 72-year-old bridegroom, he also gave Vice President Alben Barkley a leer and a nudge on his recent marriage...
...Alben W. Barkley was busier than most brides. On a typical day she visited Capitol Hill to preside over a morning meeting of the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club, lunched briefly with Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the Senator from Maryland, then dashed over to the Mayflower to meet Bess Truman at the launching of an annual money drive for the National Symphony Orchestra. It was the first public meeting between Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Barkley. Both smiled expertly for cameramen...
Visiting Louisville, Ky. with his 38-year-old bride, Vice President Alben W. Berkley, 72, said that he expects their honeymoon will last 33 more years. His explanation: "I originally planned to live to be 100, but a fortune teller in Egypt gave me five more years...
...Alben W. Barkley, 72, and his 38-year-old Missouri bride spent four days in Manhattan that allowed them little time for private handholding. But the groom's suave old politician's charm delighted newsmen, and the bride's trousseau enchanted the photographers. Arriving from their "Shangrila" retreat in Sea Island, Ga., they went their own ways for a while on their first night in town. The Veep showed up at a stag dinner of thoroughbred racers and wowed both the turfmen and the television audience by remarking: "In order to be here I interrupted...
Thorns & Roses Vice President Alben Berkley celebrated his 72nd birthday while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...