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...were microphones, movie cameras and diplomats. And there were speeches by Venezuela's visiting President Romulo Gallegos and Foreign Minister Andres Blanco. It seemed more like an ambassador's tea than an art exhibition. But the paintings-hung by the Library of Congress as a gesture of inter-American good, will-spoke anything but the language of diplomacy. The work of a brooding, hollow-cheeked man named Héctor Poleo, they were fierce and fearful as a prophecy of doom...
Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument one day last week, Harry Truman, forgetting for the moment his inter-party struggles, spoke familiarly and engagingly of his childhood, of the Republic, and of his predecessors in the White House. Just 100 years ago, the cornerstone of the monument had been laid. In Harry Truman's hand was a gavel, used in the 1848 ceremonies attended by President Polk and used before that by George Washington when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol...
When he appeared before the Inter-American Association of Broadcasters last week, Perón surprised listeners by coming out for freedom of the air. In the Argentine Congress, opposition deputies, who are never able to get radio time, dared Perón to practice what he preached...
After his father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
...mixed vegetables, 8,000 Ibs. of fresh fish and meat, 36,000 Ibs. of lettuce. One result: Inter-Island's boats are now out of business except for heavy shipping and an occasional junket for honeymooners...