Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President, spruced up in a new blue suit and his old battered Stetson for a misty-eyed celebration of his goth birthday. On hand for the doings: some 3,000 of the home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senator Lyndon Johnson. In fine gabby fettle, Visitor Truman hailed his host as "the greatest presiding officer the Senate ever had," much better, in fact, than "the squirrel head we have now. I'm talking about Mr. Nixon," he beamed. While newsmen eavesdropped, salty Cactus Jack...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Murrow stare falls on ex-Prexy Harry S. Truman and British ex-P.M. Clem Attlee. Their topic: the differences between U.S. and British constitutional government...
Republican William H. Draper, Jr., Undersecretary of the Army in the Truman administration and a former ambassador to NATO under Eisenhower, was named chairman of a nine-member committee...
...days later Brown was off on his cross-country get-acquainted tour, seeing top Democratic leaders, paying his respects to Stevenson, Harriman, Meyner and Truman. An omission that may prove to be unfortunate: the Texas ranch of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, a man who knows most of the party answers and a presidential possibility in his own right...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Holly Golightly, a kind of cornpone geisha, weaves her willful way among Manhattan's towers in a ribald and strangely touching story...