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...birthday picture, recalled the time six years ago at Augusta when Grandson David ("just a little boy then") had "gathered up all the blown flashbulbs" after photographers left. Golfer Ike posed impatiently. "Looks as if it's going to rain," he grumped, turned on his heel and strode away...
...eyed, haggard witness strode into the House Caucus room, two rows of standees in the rear strained forward to glimpse at the unwilling star of TV's dimmest hour. Charles Lincoln Van Doren folded himself uncomfortably into the witness chair, gulped some water, then stripped away the last layer of illusion separating him from the shills. "I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years," began Van Doren in a remarkable confession...
...President of the U.S. strode jauntily out of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital one morning at week's end, a walking testimonial to the report of his doctors. Having examined Ike for two days from head to toe, including barium studies of the gastrointestinal tract, Army Surgeon General Leonard Heaton reported: "The best results we ever had."* Beamed Ike: "It was so good that I would like to go back oftener...
...Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well-tailored frame from a rear seat and, ringed by Louisiana politicos, strode inside to start shaking hands. As photographers flashed away, Abbeville's Mayor Roy Theriot bounced forward to get his picture taken with Symington and Louisiana's own Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with two Senators," cried Theriot. "One may be the next President." With...
Throughout the game. a character looking like an aging water boy strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But when he spoke, they spun to listen, and for good reason. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 8 in., 160 lbs.) Coach Floyd Burdette ("Ben") Schwartzwalder, 50, is the one man who has changed Syracuse from a perpetual Eastern patsy into a powerhouse that leads the nation in offense (36.4 points...