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79/31/49
P.P.F.
JOLSON ASKS TRUMAN
IF HE'LL RUN IN 1952
4428
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28-41
Jolson, the "Mammy" singer, asked
President Truman during a White
House visit -today if he thought
he might run again for the Presi-
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dency. Mr. Jolson quoted the Presi-
dent as replying:
/ Dears.
"I don't know whether they will
want me again. Maybe I can use
the job and can run on the slogan,
'I need the job.'
Mr. Jolson said he recalled that
during a visit to Key West, Fla.,
he had been permitted to sleep in
Mr. Truman's room in the Presi-
dential cottage there.
"It was a room with twin beds,"
said the singer. "I kept jumping
from bed to bed all night, but never
did figure out which one President
Truman sleeps on."
Mr. Truman recalled seeing Mr.
Jolson in the Grand Opera House
in Kansas City in 1908 and 1909.
This brought them to the subject
of age. Mr. Jolson remarked that
he would "kiss 62 next May." He
talked of retiring.
M.I. Truman said he was opposed
to retirement. Mr. Jolson quoted
Mr. Truman as saying:
"If you quit it'll kill you."