Word: truman
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...Record. As a lawyer, Russell was once a partner of Jimmy Byrnes, former South Carolina Governor, Senator, F.D.R.'s top war mobilizer and Truman's Secretary of State. Russell served for five years in Washington in the '40s as Byrnes's chief deputy in the Office of War Mobilization and later as an Assistant Secretary of State for Administration. While he was president of the University of South Carolina (1952-57), he improved the school's reputation of sleepy mediocrity by recruiting new faculty men from across the country and launching...
Alcalay was admitted to this country in 1951 under the Truman Bill. Equipped only with his talent and humor, he has become one of Boston's leading artists and has had successful shows also in Washington and New York. Alcalay's most recent works are ink drawings on rice paper, a painstaking medium in which he shows his ability as a draftsman...
Even at the Freedom House dinner in his honor, Truman was no less salty than he had been on his sidewalk constitutional. After receiving his award, he said: "It's wonderful to be able to hear the preaching at your own funeral and still be able to walk around...
...group had the look of a decontamination unit mopping up after an atomic explosion. Stumbling down the street, interfering with traffic, all jabbering at once, arms flailing in all directions, was a tangle of men loaded down with electronic equipment. But the only explosive item in sight was Harry Truman, out for a morning stroll while visiting Manhattan. The city's TV newsmen were on hand, milking him for every jaunty, testy word as they pursued him for 20 minutes from his hotel at Madison and 76th, over to Fifth Avenue, up a few blocks and then back again...
...walks, the TV types got all the words they wanted. The ex-President was in town to receive an award from Freedom House, an organization that promotes international cooperation, and he was in a talkative mood. The brisk stride is gone now, and he moves slowly and stiffly, but Truman at 80 still manages to stage one of the more remarkable of modern press conferences...