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Like everyone else, Harry Truman had his worries; as President he had more than the normal share. But nothing seemed to dampen his resilient spirits. Last week he was having the time of his life passing out two boxes of shiny new pens, the gift of an anonymous admirer. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finest Jail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Almost the biggest news around the White House was the arrival of a pair of elegant black silk garters presented to the President by an anonymous admirer, and monogrammed "HST" on the solid gold clasps. Cost: $84.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Schoolboy's Afterthought | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Questions & Cross Reference. In Hollywood, 50-year-old Pastor Evans uses the same earnest, blunt sincerity that took him through successful pastorates at Wilmington, Calif., Pomona, Calif, and Pittsburgh. A forceful, straight-from-the-shoulder pulpit speaker, he still likes to pose direct questions to his congregations. Sample sermon title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterian in Hollywood | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

End of a Friendship. For almost 20 years Walter and Harry often took Whistler for boat rides on the Thames, watching him as he made studies for his famed "Nocturnes." Then one day, as impulsively as he had adopted them, Whistler dropped them. He had a new follower: young Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Whistler's Shadow | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Today Author Read, like many of his more thoughtful contemporaries, is a strange but balanced composite-man-an admirer of both Chinese philosophy and surrealism, an atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of Two Worlds | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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