As the presidential train rolled west, Winston Churchill fiddled with his speech until his press relations man finally got it away from him for mimeographing. The old man chatted with Harry Truman, showed off his knowledge of American history, made a creditable stab at reciting from memory Whittier's Barbara Frietchie: "Up from the meadows rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn. . . ." According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs.
Under a threatening midwest sky, he rode into Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,300), in Westminster College's packed gymnasium delivered his speech and received his honorary...
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