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...Bench. Next day at the White House, Harry Truman greeted about 1,000 visitors-more than on any day since he became President. They included labor politickers, 4-H Club campers, editors of business magazines. The bigger crowds he led out into the rose garden, where, standing on a wrought-iron park bench, he explained that he'd like to shake each & every hand, etc., but couldn...
...President surveyed his army of guests-550 delegates to the fifth annual National Citizenship Conference-and quietly decided to save himself the ordeal of 550 hearty handshakes. Instead, Mr. Truman escorted the visitors outside to the White House gardens, got up onto a black wrought-iron bench near some fragrant rosebushes and made a little speech...
...them keep their "sense of guilt" about the destruction wrought by their little monster. More such feeling and less of that on how fast can we race to obliteration may give the good doctor a longer time in which to indulge his shortsightedness...
...National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas. Among them were seven Tintorettos, twelve Titians, nine Rubenses, six Velasquezes, Dürer's big, bloody Martyrdom...
...desperate minutes, Fordham's wrought-up athletes used everything but brass knuckles to hold Army scoreless. The Army gave back as good as it got, with elbows and clenched fists. In a frantic effort to keep the game under control, officials expelled two players from the game (one from each team). Army was penalized 147 yards, including seven 15-yard penalties for major fouls; Fordham was set back 131 yards, 120 yards of it for similar fouls. Even the 278-yard penalty total didn't tell the whole story: over 100 yards of penalties were declined...