Show Capitol Primes for Inauguration By NORMAN United Press International The pre-inaugural colors were gray white red and blue The pre-inaugural talk Where is your Are you going to a And wouldn't you know the weather would be like SIGNS IN windows proclaimed to your nation's and the smiling face of John F. Kennedy stared out from the fronts of drug shoe clothing and record Hawkers yelled your souvenir hat now before the price goes A salesman on a corner three blocks from the White House did a brisk business peddling top poodles that jumped when Hairdressers were and the ladies were getting their final Frank Sinatra put his hands over his ears to shut out the blare of the orchestra and It's absolute Frantic Washington was get-ing ready to greet the new From the capitol where Kennedy will be sworn to the White where he will the stands were ready and a steady stream of people walked by to find their seats or just Most tickets were long since But if you had one for the stands and not one for the you could work a swap if you found someone who enjoyed a pa-rade more than a Stashed away around town were military Some civilian dignitaries and performers would be marching in the parade instead of sitting to watch and there were many who said these were the really lucky You keep warm better moving than you do just and this philosophy gained supporters throughout the day as the snow kept TOURISTS WERE every walking the packing the mingling in the hotel Policeman Ray whose beat has been the busy and F intersection for the last 11 happily directed and wondered if he could see the parade His corner is one block from the route and he said he would be happy if he could at least hear the Georgetown used to be a and then the New Dealers made it And now Kennedy has made it more fashionable than The Inaugural Committee put out a booklet suggesting Georgetown houses the tourists like to One of them belonged to and inside Jacqueline Kennedy was PRESIDENT-ELECT John F. Kennedy becomes the president of the United States today with his getting ready for the the the and the role of First Lady of the UP THE street her husband was at the home of an artist friend William finishing out his tour of duty as president-elect and getting ready for the awesome task of being President As the day wore on the skies turned increasingly gray and still the snow The District of Columbia put out signs saying that if it emergency plan number one and four are effect As everyone was quick to point this may be officially correct but it is a grammatical In any it meant be ready with chains and snow At the Sinatra and his Hollywood clan put finishing touches on their spectacular to raise funds for the Democratic party and give the President-elect and his wife a rousing inaugural eve Jimmy Durante ran through his Milton Berle cracked a joke and Helen chewed Producer Sinatra was busy turning chaos into order and said to Joey I'll get you a The Union Station was a true picture of the At a.m. the Chicago Fire Department band pulled Then came newsboys from the Tell high school band and more bands from Missouri and Washington's newest hotel was called and it was in the and made up of Pullman cars to house the cadets from West By mid-afternoon the streets were wet from the and the sanitation department's snow removal corps was on the Superintendent William A. had ready an army of laborers which he could expand to more than with battle tools of snow trucks and large amounts of sand and salt Las Vegas came a sheriffs' with an lion as a They said they'll give it to the PRESIDENT who has been through two or three of these conferred with his successor and got ready to move to Gettysburg and private One of the most classic political examples of so yet so told reporters that he doesn't have any plans right now to run for office in 1962 or And with Vice President Richard M. Nixon left for a month's vacation and then a law practice in |