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Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver. Colorado University's whip-smart Robert Stearns cried havoc on his coastal rivals for tidal waves, earthquakes and tornadoes. Tongue in cheek, San Francisco's urbane Mayor Roger Lapham recalled being frozen fast in the harbors of both Boston and Philadelphia in his early yachting days...
High point of the occasion for Britons when the baptismal delegation was received in London: the embrace of bearded Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo and the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, who ceremoniously kissed each other thrice on the right cheek...
General Jonathan Wainwright got a brother's, father's, husband's, and hero's welcome home. At San Francisco his sister broke from the airport crowd and gave him a squeeze; Commander Jonathan Jr. wrapped his arms around him, and kissed him on the cheek. In Washington two days later the General stepped from his plane into the arms of his wife, whom he had not seen for more than four years. And President Truman, who remarked that it gave him "more pleasure than almost anything I have ever done," presented him with the Congressional Medal...
...wartime, when the U.S. was footing the bill, brotherly love and production soared and sang at Cleveland's bountiful, brash Jack & Heintz, Inc., makers of plane equipment. Associates (employes) luxuriated in hot showers and Turkish baths, cheek by jowl with pink-jowled President William S. Jack, got free insurance and Florida vacations. Out of their sky-high wages ($5,000 a year and up) they gratefully sank $15,000,000 in preferred stock in Jahco to finance a still rosier postwar future. But peace and cutbacks brought trouble to this production paradise. By last week Jahco's eight...
Kings Gustaf and Christian of Sweden and Denmark met face to face, kissed cheek to cheek for the first time in six years, at a two-family get-together at Denmark's Amalienborg Castle. Sweden's aging Gustaf (87)-whose granddaughter is married to King Christian's son-went by destroyer to Copenhagen to visit his 74-year-old royal friend. Then the royal in-laws of both houses got together for a group picture to make it official...