A group of prominent businessmen last summer thought of a fine birthday present for President Eisenhower: they wanted to fix over a room in his Gettysburg farmhouse and fill it with Pennsylvania Dutch antiques. But when the group presented the idea to Mamie, she promptly vetoed it. The President, said she, already owned "too many things." Why not set up a scholarship in his name?
Last week 30 of the 58 trustees* of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc. met with the President for the first time to tell him just how their program would work. It contained a dash of Rhodes,...
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