Mr. Coolidge's Week

P: In an otherwise uneventful day, the President received an extended call at teatime from Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, and expressed his interest in the situation in the anthracite industry (see COAL), where a possible strike was in prospect.

P: Henry Blaney, 13, of the Lynn Manual Training School had an interview with the President and Mrs. Coolidge, and presented them with a wood carving of themselves and Rob Roy, Presidential collie. The President reciprocated by presenting Master Blaney with two dimes, three nickels and five pennies. Thereupon the President retired to his dictation and Mrs. Coolidge to the flower garden with Mrs. Stearns.

P: A formal announcement was issued at White Court:

The President and Mrs. Coolidge have received a great number of invitations from neighbors, both near and distant, since they have been in Massachusetts, extending a wide range of social courtesies. They have been most appreciative of the many tenders of hospitality and entertainment that have come to them, and have regretted that their circumstances are such that it seems impossible to accept these invitations.

It is expected that they will probably not accept social engagements away from White Court, following their rule so long established and uniformly maintained at the White House.

P: Mrs. Coolidge, walking up the roadway to White Court, was nearly run down when a detachment of motorcycle policemen swung into the road behind her. She leapt to safety. Press headlines featured her escape. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts ordered an official investigation.

P: A proposal to hold a Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington on Aug. 8, brought many protests to the President. The district commissioners had issued a permit for the parade, holding that they had no right to deny it.

P: An outcry also reached the President from the American Institute of Architects. Recently Congress authorized the redecoration of the Interior of the White House. It was understood that this decoration was to be done in colonial style--thereby ousting the French Empire furnishings which were installed during President Roosevelt's regime at a cost of $500,000, under the direction of Charles F. McKim of the famed firm of McKim, Mead & White. The proponents of the change to colonial said that it would be more appropriate and that the small beginning so far made would not destroy Mr. McKim's work as a whole. The opponents say that the White House was never typically colonial, that the French Empire style had a great vogue in this country at the time the White House was built, that the White House should not be made into a museum, that it is better to preserve the present furniture, which is historic, on its own account.

P: The President let it be known that he did not think architects need worry over alteration of the White House. The only real French Empire room, the Blue Room, will not be altered. But the Red Room and the Green Room, fitted mostly with nondescript furniture, will receive some colonial pieces.

P: On July 3, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge drove to Cambridge, took part in a parade, witnessed a pageant, in honor of the tradition that it was at that spot, 150 years before, that George Washington took command of the American Army before Boston--at the beginning of the Revolution. The President then delivered a long speech reviewing the life of George Washington.

P: On July 4, the President celebrated his 53rd birthday. Volumes of gifts edible and inedible, volumes of messages, telegraphic and postal, poured in. A card received said:

Greetings; Mr. President,

On this most glorious day.

There's a further birthday message

Which the drawn "shields" will display.

To President and nation

Are birthday honors due,

And we're wishing fame and glory

And success to both of you.

In the name of Massachusetts

Salutations I extend

To our most distinguished citizen,

Our President and friend.

ALVAN T. FULLER.

(Governor of Masachusetts)

P: One birthday gift--a pound of chocolates and a personal note--was brought by James G. Walker Jr., just 40 years the President's junior. The marines on guard took the present to the President but refused admittance to the boy. Later, a White House automobile was sent and brought him back to White Court, where he received a piece of birthday cake and a harmonica. The President celebrated his birthday by paying his first visit to the Executive Offices at Lynn. In the evening, a birthday dinner was held aboard the Mayflower at Marblehead Cove with only Frank W. Stearns and the President's staff as guests.

P: Colonel Coolidge, father of the President, just a week after his operation for an abscess of the prostate* gland, was able to leave his bed, walk out of doors and spend an hour and a half sitting on his front porch at Plymouth, Vt. John Coolidge, the President's son, remained with his grandfather, President Coolidge having returned to Swampscott two days after his father's operation.

P: Governor Ed. Jackson of Indiana and his lady called at White Court on their way home from the Governors' conference in Maine (See Page 5).

P: Mrs. Coolidge, defying the icy waters of the Massachusetts coast, went swimming with Mrs. Adolphus Andrews, wife of the President's Naval aide. She wore a two-piece black bathing suit with green stripes. Marines repelled news photographers.

*A typographical error was responsible for a reference to this as the "prostrate gland" (TIME, July 6).