Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financed trip to the Soviet Union. Nightclub Songstress Eartha Kitt was of like mind. "The country is angry, and it will take a long time to settle down," she cried. "You can't have a strong country with a nitwit like that for President." And Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo. told friends: "If this had happened when I was in the White House, I would have had Faubus in Washington in 24 hours." Added his wife: "He would, too. It might not have been the right thing to do, but he would have done something...
...Ozark pixy in Harry S. Truman got the better of him when he surprised Stanley Woodward, his old chief of protocol at the State Department, by meeting him aboard the Ille de France on Woodward's return from Europe and playfully having an official misinform him that his passport had been canceled. After the laughter (mostly Harry's) had subsided, Truman continued his week's visit in Manhattan at a nostalgic, noon-to-twilight reunion luncheon (shrimps, lobster, steak) of members and staff of the Senate's World War II committee to investigate the national defense...
...discerning ears it was soon clear that Mr. and Mrs. Edwards were too gruesome to be real. One West Coast listener thought they were "an old couple obviously trying to make a comeback"; another insisted they were Margaret and Harry Truman. Their real identity: Orchestra Leader Paul Weston and his wife, Singer Jo Stafford. Paul and Jo have been burlesquing other pop performers at parties for years, decided to record the gag after Columbia executives heard Weston's act at a sales convention (Columbia A & R Man George Avakian picked the name Jonathan Edwards, after the fiery Colonial preacher...
...Boston University's department of Latin American regional studies, who fled to Mexico in 1954 before a scheduled questioning by university authorities. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover included Halperin's name with that of Harry Dexter White in a list of suspected Communist agents sent to President Truman in 1945; according to ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, Halperin gave her secret documents and party dues when he was employed...
...Jackson County, Mo., Harry S. Truman won his audience when he told schoolteachers that "Lazy parents, baby sitters and a shortage of switches have made the teacher's role a hard one and have made our educational system a coddling process." Taking the view that gentlemen of the old schools had more chance to become gentlemen, and schooled, he recalled that his first-grade teacher "opened school with a prayer. She also kept a good limber switch in the corner...