People, Dec. 19, 1955

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

As long as Amateur Meteorologist Harry S. (for Swinomish)* Truman occupied the White House, he was the capital's first-served recipient of the daily map issued by the U.S. Weather Bureau.

Often, before Early Riser Truman signed a single document in the stack he found on his desk each morning, he would first plow through the fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to...

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