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While in New York, the editors also presented a copy to former President Harry S. Truman in his suite at the Waldorf Towers. Until then, Truman had been forced to read his news from an Associated Press ticker five blocks away...
...Eisenhowers at a dinner for 50, next morning continued resolutely to Philadelphia and New York. This week, in the space of 48 hours, they attended Greek Orthodox services at Manhattan's Hellenic Cathedral, lunched with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, rode up Broadway in a ticker-tape storm, lunched at the Waldorf with Mayor Impellitteri and 1,500 other New Yorkers, accepted an honorary degree (King Paul can add Doctor of Humane Letters to his many titles) from Columbia University, dined with U.N. officials twice and attended two receptions. Ahead of them loomed a formidable five-week...
With easy grace he perched himself atop the back seat of an official car to accept a noisy, ticker-tape welcome from downtown Manhattan. To the crowd of half a million who cheered him, he responded with a wry grin and a wave. When the parade passed into Wall Street, he glanced abound ostentatiously. Said he, in memory of ceaseless Communist propaganda about imperialist Wall Street: "I wanted to see what my 'masters' looked like." At City Hall ceremonies, he turned the talk away from himself by extolling other returned prisoners on the platform with...
Last week, the Citadel (enrollment 1,393) welcomed a new man whose rank is in no doubt. After receiving a hero's ticker-tape welcome in Manhattan, he had headed for South Carolina to accept the $12,000 job as successor to the Citadel's 86-year-old president, General Charles P. Summerall, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In time, the new president will also be something to remember. His name: Mark Clark, General, U.S.A...
...Manhattan, newly crowned British Open Golf Champion Ben Hogan got a hero's welcome: a ticker tape parade up Broadway. Golfer Hogan also received a message from Golfer Eisenhower: "We are proud of you, not only as a great competitor and a master of your craft, but also as an envoy extraordinary in the business of building friendship for America...