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Throughout Truman's stay, Harriman supporters marched in and out of his Carlyle Hotel suite. No working Stevenson backer came to call. Sam Rosenman had breakfast with Harriman and Truman, escorted Truman to a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, closed out the day with Harry and Bess Truman at "21." When New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff (George Backer's exwife) asked Truman about Stevenson's chances, she got a meaningful reply. Reported Publisher Schiff: "Mr. Truman pointed out that a once-defeated presidential candidate has never won in American history except in the strange...
Lord Halifax, Oxford's chancellor and onetime (1941-46) British Ambassador to the U.S., saluted "Harricum Truman" as "staunchest of allies," named him Doctor of Civil Law. Bess Truman, who called the ceremony "the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen," was less impressed by Dr. Truman. She marched up at a post-degree party, announced, "Come on, Harry, it's time to go." Sighed Truman: "It's always like this." Before leaving Oxford he was cheered by students: "Give 'em hell, Harricum...
...Belgian newsman whether the Democrats would welcome a decision by Ike to quit the race because of poor health, Harry replied: "I am hopeful that President Eisenhower's health will be good and will make him able to enter the presidential race." While in Brussels, Truman and wife Bess also got themselves up in go-to-meetin' attire, joined U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Frederick M. Alger Jr. in a palace visit with Belgium's young, informally dressed King Baudouin...
...albums represent the two current extremes of show styles: Lady is a descendant of Oklahoma! and South Pacific, with its pretty songs separated by plenty of action and dialogue. Fella comes from Italian opera buffa out of such frankly operatic efforts as Porgy and Bess -only 20 of its 140 minutes are filled with spoken words, a percentage which compares favorably with Mozart's Magic Flute. Putting such works on records required very special abilities, e.g., coaxing people whose first impulse is to mime and pose into playing entirely for the ear, and then creating in sound the invisible...
...Eisenhower Suite), he saw the ancient sights, guided by TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, filling in as host for ailing Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn't get in any more...