Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radiant Housewife Margaret Truman Daniel confirmed the rumor: some time next June Elder Statesman Harry Truman should become a grandfather for the second time...
...time his 70th birthday rolls around in April, Benton expects to be attacking the wall of the Truman Library. Says he: "I am going to take all the time I can get to finish these, so I won't fall on my face. But I'll deliver them, all right...
Last week Missouri-born Artist Benton was meticulously documenting each projected detail for two new murals for two individualistic patrons who know their own minds: ex-President Harry Truman, who authorized a $60,000 mural for the Truman Library in Independence, and New York's Robert Moses, who wants a smaller ($21,000) piece for the New York State Power Authority administration building in Niagara Falls...
...didn't want to do any more murals," says Benton. "Painting a mural is a lot of moving and climbing around all over the thing. It's just too damned much work. But the Truman thing seemed so important, and then they all wanted me to do the second." A good mural, Benton feels, "must have a world of depth into which you can move. That kind of art is at a low ebb. Ages ago, artists were in demand to make images of a people's God. The artist was a necessity, even though he might...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Willful, wistful Holly Golightly is waiting for true love's call, but the men who ring are all wrong numbers...