President Eisenhower this week-end took a few minutes off from grave international problems at the White House to comfort a 72-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, mother of Mr. Eisenhower’s World War II pilot. She is Mrs. Max Freedman of Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Mrs. Freedman and her husband set out for Florida to visit their son Jerome, the President’s former pilot, some two weeks ago, but the husband died en route. After the mourning period, Mr. Eisenhower contacted another son, Seymour Freedman of Washington, and invited Mrs. Freedman to the White House. When Mrs. Freedman and Seymour Freedman visited the President, the latter comforted them on their loss and reminisced about Jerome.
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