Happy Days

His decision to stand up to John L.Lewis seemed to have worked wonders for Harry Truman. Columnists and cartoonists noted a sudden rise in his political prestige. At their annual Gridiron Dinner, Washington newsmen softened their traditional digs at the President and chorused "Of thee we sing. Harry!" with real enthusiasm.

Ex-Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon dropped into the White'House for a chat, came out beaming and declaring that Harry looked fine. The Duke of Windsor stopped in for a chat. He thought the President looked "in great shape." Ex-Kansas Governor, ex-War Secretary Harry Woodring, a deep-dyed Democrat, was so moved by the President's new vigor that he prophesied his re-election in 1948, along with a Democratic Congress.

No unbiased political observer was willing to go that far. But the President had gained at least one small point. Temporarily, people were no longer referring to him as "that ineffective man in the White House."

Last week the President: P: Appointed nine of the nation's top scientists and engineers as an advisory board to the five-man Atomic Energy Commission. The board: Harvard President James Bryant Conant; Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize Physicists Enrico Fermi (University of Chicago) and I. I. Rabi (Columbia University); ex-Los Alamos Director J. R. Oppenheimer (University of California); Hartley Rowe, chief engineer of the United Fruit Co. ; Chemistry Professor Glenn T. Seaborg (University of California), Cyril Stanley Smith, director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Metals; Hood Worthington, chemical engineer for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

P: Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis.)

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