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Charles W. Latimer, a boyhood friend of the President's in Independence, Mo., came all the way from his present home in Tampa, Fla., just to shake hands. And there was Bryce B. Smith, longtime (1930-40) mayor of Kansas City under the Boss Pendergast regime...
Once, as the President started from Blair House at 8:30 a.m., followed by Secret Service men and reporters, a tiny old lady stepped from a knot of onlookers, said: "I just wanted to shake hands." The President shook hands. And once, when traffic halted to let the President pass, a cab driver yelled: "Good luck, Harry!" Harry Truman grinned and waved...
...York Edison Co., commutes by plane between Manhattan and his Southwest railroad. He has traveled over every mile of the 3,293-mile Katy system. On inspection trips he fires a barrage of questions at Katy railmen, once stopped his special train at a lonely station to shake hands with a legless dispatcher...
Perhaps, as some Allied observers hoped, the senescent figure of Baron Suzuki was a front for a negotiated peace. "The Jap Cabinet shake-up," cracked one, "is really a plea for mercy...
...world's swiftest sprint swimmer lost in the National A.A.U. Indoor championships. In the 100-yd. freestyle, record-smashing Columbia Midshipman Alan Ford (TIME, Feb. 26) tried hard to shake off lean-jawed Specialist 2/C Wally Ris, onetime mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time...