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...David and Barbara Anne Eisenhower, carrying Easter baskets, came outdoors to join the fun. David distributed five souvenir eggs to pleading adults. Between the screaming crowds and the photographers, the Eisenhower kids soon wearied of the show, retreated to the White House...
...President greeted the rollers from the balcony. Then, with his daughter-in-law, David and Barbara Anne, he walked into the midst of the mob. As the people closed in, making retreat impossible, Ike picked up his granddaughter. David was bumped so hard he lost another half-dozen eggs. Ike's retreat was cut off. Finally a flying wedge of Secret Service men led the Eisenhowers out a side gate, back to the White House by way of a side street. Said Ike: "I didn't think the kids would take such a beating...
...Pedal Tricycles Sir: . . . Let me join the many who will notice this sentence: "Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather golfing divots [TIME, March 23]." TIME forgot to say whether the Eisenhower tykes finally sold their trikes. And what will they be pushing next week? WENDELL SMITH Santa Monica, Calif...
News from the Zoo. After the conference, the First Lady hurried upstairs where some special house guests were waiting: her three grandchildren, who had arrived with their mother, Mrs. John Eisenhower, the evening before. Young Dwight David Eisenhower II, who will celebrate his fifth birthday this month, Barbara Anne, 3, and Baby Susan Elaine, 1, were paying their first visit to grandfather's new house. One fine afternoon they played on the back lawn under the budding magnolias. When the photographers arrived, David obligingly lifted Skunky, the family's portly Scotty, for a moment, but had to give...
Exciting as their first visit to the White House was, the young Eisenhowers had more important business on their minds. On their very first afternoon in Washington, David and Barbara Anne went off to inspect the zoo, chaperoned by a sheepish Secret Serviceman (Mamie and Barbara Eisenhower went to a matinee). David thought the zoo was fine until a lion roared at him. And though Barbara Anne wandered fearlessly into the lion house, David stayed outside, peered through the door. "I can see all right from here," he explained. When he got back, young David had some afterthoughts about...