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Addressing a church club audience in home-town Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman explained why most U.S. Senators are cool to the recurrent idea of having ex-Presidents join their ranks (TIME, Feb. 15). Snorted Harry: "The United States Senators-the 96 when I was there, and the 100 now-are all prima donnas. I was one of them, and I know what it meant. Every one of the Senators is a topnotch man in his own state and is used to the limelight there. He would like to have the same consideration in the Senate. They...
...Philadelphia Philco employee, Rodgers came out of Northeast High School with an average of 35 points per game, graduated in 1958 from home-town Temple University as a near-unanimous All-America. With the Warriors, Rodgers regularly holds lonely practice sessions to perfect his passing techniques. "I'll put a chair in a certain place," he says, "and pretend it's Bill Russell of the Celtics, and that I'll have to fake him a little to get the ball to Wilt. I dribble at the chair like it's Russell. I can practically...
...McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in St. Louis, after totting up the cost of parties, souvenirs and advertising planned to celebrate its 20th anniversary, decided to give the $300,000 instead to home-town Saint Louis and Washington universities, and President James S. McDonnell's alma mater, Princeton. McDonnell makes mostly military jets, also has a contract for the space capsule to carry the first U.S. astronaut aloft...
...cocktail parties to listen. In the early forties Helen Howe was listening, and her novel about Cambridge people and their talk, "We Happy Few," has made the community uneasy ever since. Miss Howe is a small, bright-featured woman whose father is Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, and whose home-town is Boston. She has written enough novels to qualify as the "Jane Austen" of New England...
...colony of embittered Dominican Republic exiles who cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...