Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another public art project, was put on view a fortnight ago with the dedication of a 32-ft.-long mural by Realistic Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, 72, for the library of fellow-Missourian Harry S. Truman in Independence. Worked up from a three-dimensional clay model and a miniature painting, the mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway...
...chance, Adlai Stevenson still feels Harry Truman's support a political liability, he can take consolation in the fact that Truman has already pledged himself this time around to Fellow Missourian Stuart Symington...