THE PRESIDENCY: Fish & Quips

In a nightspot bar on Key West's Duval Street, a full-bloused songstress named Rae Waller was tickling the patrons' ears with a new song about Harry Truman. (Sample verse: "Bar pianos strain their glands/For the touch of Harry's hands.") Yet while the song poked fun at him, Key West's most important tourist was more than welcome in the southernmost city in the U.S.

The fact that Truman has made Key West his vacationland is now the town's biggest asset. Because of the Truman boom, air-conditioned motels are blooming like red spider lilies in...

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