Getting Around

Harry Truman, who chafes at the confinement of the White House, had a week of busy escape. In his special railroad car, he took off for Fulton, Mo. (to introduce Speechmaker Winston Churchill) and for a return-trip stopover for a speech of his own in Columbus, Ohio.

Before leaving Washington, the President had bustled pleasantly through an unusual list of social engagements. He invited himself to a lunch given by Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, ate three bowls of chile. He spent an hour at a cocktail party thrown by Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., his naval aide and nominee for the Federal Reserve Board. At week's end he dined at the Statler with the White House Correspondents' Association, and laughed good-naturedly at a skit parodying the tune: I'm Just Wild About Harry.

The President also:

P: Appointed Randolph Paul, ex-Treasury tax expert, to be $10,000-a-year presidential assistant; named Major General John H. Hilldring, regular Army director of Civil Affairs, to be an Assistant Secretary of State; Delaware attorney Josiah Marvel Jr. to be Minister to Denmark.

P: Formally opened the $100,000,000 Red Cross drive with a radio speech, and urged support of another fund-raising campaign by the United Jewish Appeal.

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