Associated Press

Ten-year-old Michael Danna of South Ozone Park, New York, chats with Mrs. Harry (Bess) Truman at the White House today before presenting a puppy, "Buttons, Jr." (on lap), to the wife of the President. Michael, selected as the national Muscular Dystrophy Appeal Poster Boy, has a dog of his own and advocates one for "every family." He decided "Buttons, Jr.," the seven-week-old cocker spaniel, should belong to the Trumans. The visit marked the official opening of the 1952-1953 Muscular Dystrophy Appeal Campaign. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman poses in front of a mobile chest x-ray unit which was parked outside his White House office today in connection with a 1952 Christmas Seal sale promotion. He earlier was given the first sheet of new Christmas Seals by officials of the District of Columbia Tuberculosis Association, which distributes them. From: Houston Post.

President Harry S. Truman, hand in pocket, smiles as newsmen fire questions at him about tonight's White House conference with United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and others. The President called the conference to make a personal appeal to Lewis to end the soft coal strike and later said the mine workers head "has assured me of his cooperation." Lewis commented "obviously whatever the president said is right." However, at the station where Truman boards his train for another campaign tour, he said he had nothing further to say. The man at right is unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman shares a handshake with three Marine heroes of the fighting in Korea after presenting a Medal of Honor to each in a White House Rose Garden ceremony. (Left to Right): PFC Hector A. Cafferata, of Montville, New Jersey; President Truman; Tech Sgt. Robert S. Kennemore of Greenville, South Carolina; and Lt. Col. Raymond G. Davis of Arlington, Virginia. From: Houston Post