Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare is the reporter who does not dream of some day writing a novel. Novelist Truman Capote, on the other hand, yearns to report. For a long time he wanted to raise reporting to an art by re-creating some event with a novelist's insight, sympathy and exactitude. The trouble was, he could not find the right topic. Then one day in 1959, he was leafing through the New York Times when he noticed a headline, EISENHOWER APPOINTEE SLAIN. He read the story of the senseless killing of Wheat Farmer Herbert Clutter and his family, and he suddenly...
...goodbye to Coquelin Terrace. Because there is no official residence for the nation's No. 2 executive, Hubert is encountering many of the problems that plagued his predecessors, some of whom also lived very simply. Calvin Coolidge and Cactus Jack Garner, for example, lived in hotels, and Harry Truman occupied a $150-a-month apartment. Some people did not think these arrangements very seemly, and there was always some agitation for the Vice Presidents to move...
...entering the building, but that hardly seemed necessary. The guests were easily recognizable and hardly the crashing type: the Bobby Kennedys (who arrived one at a time in a beige Lincoln Continental convertible), the Stephen Smiths, Pat Lawford, Lee Radziwill, the Robert McNamaras, Douglas Dillon, Cartoonist Charles Addams, Author Truman Capote, Artist William Walton, Mme. Hervé Alphand and Mrs. Paul Mellon...
...State Department of Education recommended Earl J. McGrath. So did Presbyterian officials, who by now were warming to the idea. So did the Ford Foundation. Asked Rosenkrans: "Who is McGrath?" He and Skinner found out soon enough. Buffalo-born Earl McGrath had been U.S. Commissioner of Education under President Truman and president of the University of Kansas City. The prospectors located him in New York, where McGrath, 62, was teaching at Columbia and directing research in higher education. Skinner went to see him and opened the conversation with: "What are we doing to help the C+ high school student...
...firing until Pendergast was destroyed. "I'd rather report than eat," said the editor, who excelled at both. He loved to play politics, and became a kingmaker in the Republican Party, backing Dewey, Willkie and Ike; he also lent a helping hand to a local Democratic boy, Harry Truman. Dubbed "Mr. Kansas City," he once boasted: "I'll have the biggest damn funeral Kansas City has ever seen. They'll all come out to see their old master laid away...