Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always a surprise to find a good first novel, but it never is surprising to find that it comes from the South. From Harper Lee. whose To Kill a Mockingbird won this year's Pulitzer Prize, the list runs back to writers of remarkable quality. William Styron, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter are but a few whose first fiction showed them to be in full command of talents that some novelists fail to achieve in a lifetime. How do they get that way? Is it, as Author Lee has suggested, that the South...
...thing is sure: If Harry S. Truman does not receive an honorary this June, the CRIMSON will not publish next year. (It's a promise.) The former President has been a likely candidate each year but, unlike his two successors, has never made the grade. One CRIMSON editor has even agreed to finance a trip to Cambridge for Truman, who was once mercilessly denied an honorary CRIMSON membership...
Radcliffe students of exemplary genetic background have a chance to strike it rich according to the terms of a former professor's will, it was learned yesterday. Truman L. Kelley, formerly a member of the faculty at the School of Education, has set up a "Eugenics Trust" for his two sons, one of whom lives in Cambridge...
...Kennedy has evolved from U-2 to me-too, strengthened Castro, and made the U.S. and its unintelligence service the laughingstock of the world-amidst new threats of direct military intervention and a frantic quest for testimonials from Goldwater and Nixon, from Eisenhower and Truman and Rockefeller. President Kennedy has taken the official blame but is busy trying to establish a future innocence-by-association...
Defending the resolution "Resolved: That the House Un-American Activities Committee should be abolished," the affirmative team appealed to the emotions and sense of humor of the audience. It quoted Harry Truman's assertion that the HUAC is "the most un-American thing in the United States today," and described a new parior game, "HUAC," in which the side with the most accusations wins...