Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote. 343 pages. Random House...
...June the U.S. Senate passed Resolution 116, marveling warmly that Senator Smith had just cast her 2,000th roll-call vote without a miss-a feat "unparalleled in the history of the Senate." Her only declared opposition so far in Maine comes from a Democratic state representative named Plato Truman. If Mrs. Smith can lick that combination, she will automatically become the ranking Republican on the powerful Armed Services Committee, now that Massachusetts Neighbor Leverett Saltonstall is retiring...
...North American Newspaper Alliance is not affiliated with a newspaper. Founded in 1922, it specializes in big bylines. In 1936, it sent Ernest Hemingway to cover the Spanish Civil War; more recently, it hired Harry Truman to comment on politics. This month Dean Acheson will write a report on Viet Nam. NANA's 19 full-time staffers also turn out yards of women's news on food and fashions for the service's 140 U.S. clients...
...status drop-in and a literate public saw him ridiculed. As in all senseless episodes, only epilogues were wanting: for the Clutter family murder, an explanation of such infrequent violence; for the New Yorker's reputation, unequivocal proof of current literary merit. The publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" on the Clutter affair, recently serialized in the New Yorker, triumphantly answers both needs...
...society in which his daughters had been circulating since they moved from Grosse Pointe to live with their mother in New York. The crowd ranged from Mrs. Mary Lasker to Baby Jane Holzer, included such luminaries as Ceezee and Winston Guest, the Winston Churchills III, Truman Capote, the Raymond Loewys, and the Douglas Fairbankses...