Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself was told early in December. With the usual cheerful self-confidence of the Kennedy White House circle, almost the first response heard was: "Has anyone ever made it eight years in a row?" (The answer, of course, is no. Franklin D. Roosevelt made it three times; Churchill, Truman, Eisenhower, George C. Marshall and Stalin twice.) TIME'S criterion for its choice is the man who "dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark-for good or ill-on history." As usual, our readers were invited to make their own nominations. Everybody from Dr. Dooley...
...assembly, a secret Cabinet meeting from behind a 2-in. oaken door. Romagna recalls the experience as "ghastly." There was a phone in the bathroom, and assorted Cabinet members popped in to use it-forcing Romagna to hide behind another door. In 1948, on tour with Harry Truman. Romagna transcribed more than 300 of Truman's 536 campaign speeches, missing only an occasional word: when Truman sneered at leaders of the Republican 80th Congress as "mossbacks," Romagna. who had never heard the expression, wrote it down "moth bags...
...games going simultaneously by mail), model shipbuilding and music. An accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
...Wall Street. His personal history was the kind that warms the American heart: a onetime newsboy, he made Phi Beta Kappa while putting himself through the University of Arizona, then worked his way up from a $1,900-a-year job with the SEC to appointment by Harry Truman as an SEC commissioner...
...Senator Truman knew what he was talking about. In the inner circle that rules the Senate, Styles Bridges was the innermost man, the dean of Senate Republicans, and one of the savviest politicians in the upper chamber. He was a poor speaker, and his name was never attached to any historic item of legislation. Yet last week, when Bridges died of complications following a heart attack, the Senate lost one of its most influential members...