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AN OATH — AND A PRAYE
Washington Hums With Activity . . .
By EMILY BOUCHER
WASHINGTON, D. C. is humming with activity
in preparation for the inaugural and its festi
vities which are expected to draw ,a million visitors.
Stands from the bleacher type to closed-in, heated
boxes line Pennsylvania Avenue where the parade
will be held.
With all the pomp of a great republic, the oldest
President in history will hand over the leadership
of America to the youngest President ever elected.
The future’s most important essentials are: a just
peace and a sound dollar. Then there is the challenge
of Communism. Our new President must rise to the
stature of world leadership and must mobilize all
free men into a mammoth offensive for victory, for
we have come to a crossroads of freedom.
There is much talk here of the close election
and the need for a more feasible electoral reform.
This must be done by a constitutional amendment.
Eisenhower recently said to the Army-Navy
Club: “Don’t ever let me feel that you have let down
on this fight for a better America, for peace, for
strength, for private enterprise, for individual effort.
Always go on fighting.”
His eyes are on the future as are those of the
new President and all the free countries of the world.
Eisenhower Commends
Kennedy on His Address
WASHINGTON GW — Former
President Eisenhower said today
the inaugural address of his suc
cessor, President John F. Ken
nedy, was “fine, very fine.”
He made the remark in reply
to newsman’s question as he ar
rived with Mrs. Eisenhower for
a luncheon given in their honor
by Lewis L. Strauss.
As the Eisenhowers entered an
accordionist struck up “for he’s
a jolly good fellow.” The guests
raised champagne glasses and
sang the song.
The guests included former
Vice President and Mrs. Richard
M. Nixon, members of the Ei
senhower cabinet and their wives
and a few other officials of the
outgoing administration.
Halaby Will Head the
Federal Aviation Agency
WASHINGTON UP — President
elect John F. Kennedy has chosen
Najeeb Halaby of Los Angeles to
be Chief of the Federal Aviation
Agency. Halaby now is deputy
chief.
Halaby will succeed E. R. Que
sada who recently became part
owner of the new Washington
Baseball Club, and resigned his
federal post.
Halaby, 45, now has his own
law firm in Los Angeles and is
also secretary-treasurer of Aero
space Corp., the principal techni
cal adviser to the Air Force on
Ballistic missile and space pro
grams.
Halaby was a test pilot for
Lockheed Aircraft from 1941 to
1943 and then a Navy test pilot
until 1946.
Eisenhower States He Done His Rest;
hat Is it Like on the Outside?”
By Saul Pett
WASHINGTON UP — Two
weeks ago President Eisenhower
was visited in the White House
by his old Army friend, Gen.
Omar Bradley, now a corporate
executive.
“Brad,” the President of the
United States asked, “how do
you like your job on the outside?”
The word “outside” was given
a special kind of emphasis, a
yearning, an envy, a vicarious
' relish, the way a man in jail
a long time asks about the world
beyond the walls.
“Mr. President,” said Gen.
Bradley, “it’s wonderful. Oh,
there are still decisions to make
but I don’t have to make them the
day they’re brought in. I can take
several days or even weeks to
make up my mind.”
And the President said, marvel
ling, “that must be wonderful!”
The incident, aides and asso
ciates agree, is the best single
: mirror of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
mood in the last days of his ad
ministration. He is about to close
out a half century of public serv
ice and 20 years of awesome bur
den, and be can’t wait. He has
been counting the days.
He leaves with a variety of
! other emotions but the overriding
| one appears to approach relief.
| He hungers to relax and escape
| tension. He longs for the luxury,
denied him most of the past 20
, years, of living without fear that
i a mistake could imperil a civiliza
j tion or nation or army or single
platoon o*f men.
He Done His Best
He leaves with a conviction of
having done his best, with pride
in much of his record (fiscal
policy, relative containment of
the Soviets and no shooting war
involving America* and a deep,
abiding disappointment that in
his eight years the world came no
closer to real peace.
He leaves, too, with some sad
ness, with a feeling of inner senti
mentality that he rarely shows in
public.
He leaves with a private affec
tion for the old house, to which
he returned after two serious ill
nesses and a minor stroke, in
which he and Mamie Eisenhower
had the longest single stay in their
45 years of much traveled mar
ried life.
He leaves with a warm hope of
privacy and a soaring expectation
that he can now play golf with
out criticism. He leaves with two
tiny ambitions, poignant in their
smallness:
He would now like to be able to
decide suddenly to go to a ball
game without fuss, without gal
vanizing 50 people into action. He
would like, too, to be able to
wander through a supermarket
without commotion. He is tired
of commotion and curious about
supermarkets.
What will he miss most? He i
will miss, we are told, the fringe ,
benefits of command and the !
Presidency. He now leaves the I
vast executive machinery of gov- '
PATTERSON AND JOHANSSON
FIGHT SET FOR MARCH 13TH
NEW YORK UP) — Floyd Pat
terson, world heavyweight box
ing champion, and challenger
Ingemar Johansson of Sweden
have signed an agreement to
meet in Convention Hall at Miami
Beach, Fla., on March 13.
The agreement differed from
the usual fight contract in that
it said only that the two would
meet. The fighters, not their man
agers or advisers, signed.
The agreement said that each
would receive 25 per cent of the
gate receipts and that other fi
nancial agreements had been
reached with Feature Sports Inc.
Here is singer Polly Bergen’s
recipe for health: “I keep my
figure trim by working hard and
keeping busy. That way I don’t
put on weight. I hate inactivity—
it ages a person and makes him
dull”.
ernment, a top personal staff of
20 and scores of subordinates.
After today, he will have only
two or three people on his staff
to call on for help.
He goes from a choice of air
planes (prop, jet or helicopter),
trains, Naval ships and cars to
his Gettysburg farm, where the
Eisenhowers have one car (a 1956
Chrysler limousine), one station
wagon and two jeeps.
He goes from the immense
power and prestige of the White
House to a farm in Pennsylvania
where, despite continuing fame
and relative comfort, a man’s ego
will have to make its own pri
vate adjustment.
'Giant Eye Symbolizing Research Hope
Is Visited by Small Birth Defects Victim
The lights dim, and in
the darkened high-ceilinged
room a somber-faced little
boy stares at the pilot light
of a towering microscope.
This is the electron micro
scope at Ohio State University
Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, a
giant inquiring eye nine feet
tall, capable of magnifying the
human cell 100,000 times.
The small boy with the
rather sad little face is Kevin
Sharp, 3% years, of Grove
City, Ohio, who wanted to see
a jumbo-sized version of the
toy microscope given him on
his last birthday by his doctor.
Kevin has to see his doctor
regularly because he is a vic
tim of spina bifida, or open
spine. He is paralyzed from the
waist down and cannot play
ball—or indeed play much at
anything.
Such mobility as he has is
made possible by his crutches
and leg braces.
Kevin’s is one of the signifi
cant birth defects the cause of
which is being pursued today
by The National Foundation
with New March of Dimes con
tributions. Congenital malfor
mations afflict 250,000 infants
annually in the United States
and are responsible for the
deaths of 34,000 babies each
year who are stillborn or die
within four weeks of birth.
The health organization’s ex
panded program also includes
arthritis and continued work
in polio.
In his excitement while
reaching for the eyepiece of
the vast instrument, Kevin
probably didn’t know that in
the ultra-powerful lens of such
electron microscopes, scientists
hope some day to pinpoint the
cause of the savage embryonic
mishap that crippled him be
fore he was born. By compar
ing normal and abnormal cells
under tremendous magnifica
tion, researchers hope to dis
cover, for example, why Kev
in’s spine never fused during
his mother’s pregnancy, or why
some other little boy or girl is
born with excess fluid on the
brain—another baffling birth
defect which The National
Foundation is studying.
“At his birth, doctors gave
Kevin only a few hours to
Kevin Sharp, 3'A years, of Grove City, Ohio, victim of birth
defect of an open spine, stands before huge nine-foot elec
tron microscope at Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus.
Instrument is used in March of Dimes-supported research
into congenital malformations.
live,” says Mrs. Gerald Sharp,
his mother. “In addition to his
open spine, he had two club
feet which are now much im
proved due to surgery and
physical therapy. He is a brave
and happy little fellow even if
he smiles so rarely. My hus
band and I thank God that
today wider research is being
done into birth defects.”
She adds somewhat wist
fully:
“My husband Gerald and I
met in an orphanage in Xenia,
Ohio. We became childhood
sweethearts. Like other young
people, we longed to raise a
family, and a healthy one.
“Why should this unaccount
able accident have happened to
us? But we count our bless
ings. Perhaps fewer Kevins
will be born to the next gen
eration. We certainly pray so.”
The lights return and, sup
Eorted by his crutches and
races, • solemn little Kevin
struggles back from the micro
scope. But at that moment,
looking up at his mother,
there’s the suggestion of a
smile around the corners of his
mouth.