Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to see why the late Jacqueline Susann, author of the no-qual best seller Valley of the Dolls, got so upset. All Truman Capote had done was to mention to Johnny Carson, on the Tonight show, that Susann looked "like a truck driver in drag." No offense there. "Bitchy, yes; malicious, no," Capote explained in a letter to Susann's attorney, Louis Nizer, after she filed suit. Capote went on to praise Nizer's own letter to him as well written: "If only your client . . . had your sense of style!" Susann took this badly and caricatured Capote...
...carnival performer called the Great Pasha, whose specialty was being buried alive. His mother was a small-town Alabama beauty named Lillie Mae Faulk, who eventually chucked the shiftless Arch, headed for New York City and changed her name to Nina because it sounded more sophisticated. Little Truman was parked for much of his childhood in a Southern-gothic household of eccentric cousins in Monroeville, Ala. But Clarke stresses that his most agonizing early memory was of being locked in a hotel room by his mother when she went out on the town. "That's when my claustrophobia and fear...
Similarly, the younger Schlesinger noted thatPresident John Tyler was born during Washington'sPresidency, and that Tyler's oldest daughter diedduring Truman's Presidency, encapsulating nearlyall of American history in two generations
Three Harvard sophomores last week learned they would receive scholarships from the Harry S. Truman Foundation, a prestigious fund established by Congress in 1975 to aid college sophomores interested in public service careers...
Malcolm McCormack, executive secretary of the Truman Foundation, which administers the scholarships, said the award was founded because those who had known the president believed he would not have wanted a memorial building. "He was not much on bricks and mortar. They wanted a living program dedicated to Truman's memory," he said...