One Dark Spot in Pleasant Trip - Adam Bridge, vice president of Shartle Brothers, spent May and June talking to Europe's men in the street - and explaining to a few that he wasn't Harry Truman. Bridge, talking in his office last week, took off his Truman-like eyeglasses, smiled his Truman-like smile and laughed. "But the mistaken identity didn't make me feel so good," he remarked. But no matter what impression Bridge made on them, the English, French, Norwegians and Italians the executive met seemed courteous and friendly to him. In fact, the only inhospitality of his trip was the shout of "Go home, Americans!" that some Communists at London's Hyde Park sent his way. Bridge was passing by the park, long a forum of controversial discussion in London, when he noticed a "Save the Rosenbergs" rally in progress. Bridge and his wife and their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Parker of Dayton, decided to find out what made the speakers, who were obviously Communists, tick...

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