Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once had John Barrymore to dinner before going to the National to see the Great Profile play Hamlet. Both F.D.R. (he liked Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith and Mickey Mouse, among others) and Truman were major White House impresarios...
Holly Golightly, the charming corn-pone geisha who sheds everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion...
...twice-married, twice-divorced blonde built along dinner-at-Schrafft's lines, Bonnie Golightly, 39, is a practicing novelist (The Wild One) and ex-Greenwich Village bookstore owner. Far from being "a figment of Truman Capote's so-called imagination,'' Bonnie claims. Capote's colorful heroine was constructed from details about Bonnie gleaned by Capote ("a creative reporter") from "mutual friends...
According to Silverman, Truman is still working on arrangements for a stay at the University and will let the two organizations know if such plans materialize. It is fairly definite, however, that Truman will not make the trip until late in the term, if at all, Leary said...
...Truman is a very busy man; we don't start telling him what to do," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, remarked Thursday. Truman had planned to reside at Lowell during his visit. Perkins called it "something of an imposition" to invite "a man who is so busy," but he said there would be room for Truman in Lowell House whenever he could manage to come...