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Baruch and Harry Truman, two strong-willed men whose personalities were bound to clash, finally parted ways in 1948. In an angry outburst that was never meant to see print-but was nonetheless published by Columnist Westbrook Pegler-Baruch at that time blistered Truman as "a rude, uncouth, ignorant man." Truman, for his part, was more restrained. "His concern," he wrote of Baruch in his memoirs, "was really whether he would receive public recognition. He had always seen to it that his suggestions and recommendations, not always requested by the President, would be given publicity...
...discovered that the water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged Carter in effigy. After a week in the dark, Edwards moved...
...antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love of life...
Over-Shucked Cornball. That's the way it is at the Paramount, too. He does The Mouse, a dance of his own invention in which he wiggles, sticks out his teeth, puts his thumbs to his ears and makes what once used to be considered a rude gesture. Everyone screams. He does a few more songs from a new album (in New York alone his recording of The Mouse has sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the past month) and, more screams, the show is over. For doing just that five times...
Europeans generally read American strips, but they have produced a couple of sophisticated versions of their own. England's Andy Capp (which also runs in U.S. papers) is a rude little cockney runt who breaks all the comics' rules of decency: he's unable to hold a job, boozes it up, beats his wife. "Andy sets an appalling example for the youth of England," says the London Mirror Group's Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, "but he is irresistible." France's Barbarella, an unmistakable likeness of Brigitte Bardot, is an oversexed, underdressed space girl who beds...