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Away out yonder in Missouri, Harry Truman gratefully accepted $6,200 from his Independence neighbors as a contribution toward building his projected $1,750,000 Truman Library, which will house his mountain of personal papers and other Trumaniana. He was especially pleased to contemplate such a shrine...
Politics & War. Election year brought the usual flutter of campaign quickies. John Gunther's superficial Eisenhower might well have been called Outside Ike; the books on Adlai Stevenson were competent profiles at best. None of them did startlingly well. A curious, garishly illustrated hodgepodge of miscellaneous Trumaniana called Mr. President-its publication had been encouraged by Harry as a kind of farewell gesture-passed the 100,000 mark...
...Last summer, Washington newshens sent her a list of questions in the hope of getting a story on her reactions to being a President's wife. Last week, when the female reporters called on Mrs. T.'s two secretaries, they were rewarded by a fascinating piece of Trumaniana-the First Lady's terse, tart and revealing answers...
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