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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
Bess was right. Sitting on the Army side of Philadelphia's Franklin Field, the President found his box definitely chilly...
...critics, like other critics during her 14-city tour, had mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but added tartly: "Miss Truman is too much of a vocal beginner to appear in public...
Lilienthal found his legacy tied to some annoying problems. Perhaps the most serious was the balancing of military security against the release of scientific information. Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they...
While only a third of the respondants found college "an intellectual stimulus," almost a half said college had developed them "socially...