28 JANUARY 1949, page 10

Truman's Optimism

By EDWARD MONTGOMERY New York, January 21 W HEN Harry S. Truman stepped to the massed microphones yesterday to deliver his first Inaugural Address as elected President of the......

Pray Silence . . . !

By the MARQUESS OF READING A FTER-DINNER speeches, in most respects unlike Thomas Hobbes' description of the life of man, are normally solitary, frequently poor, sometimes......