Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West German." Anderson was aware of the trend when he took office in 1957. In characteristic fashion he quietly set about shifting foreign-aid policies that had been backed by the full prestige of the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations. There were no dramatic sessions; at every opportunity he simply called attention to the problem. Last spring he began inviting Administration leaders to conferences and lectures. At first the State Department was horrified at the prospect of revising foreign-aid policy (and some of its staffers still are), but Anderson found a sympathetic listener in Under Secretary (for Economic Affairs...
Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City...
Former President Harry S. Truman will be the principal speaker at a mock national Democratic convention to be sponsored next spring, from April 29 to May 1, by the Harvard Young Democrats Club. Student representatives will be sent from every state, Gary M. Little '61, the Club's vice-president, said last night...
...style may be described as a kind of loving criticism," he says. The criticisms are sometimes wrapped in flattery, as when he paints a gauzy profile of the Duchess of Windsor without those wrinkles that are the map of earned character. But Truman Capote he sees devastatingly as a lounging, feline figure, with a prim mouth and enormous cold spectacles. Elsa Maxwell becomes, in a spectacularly strong and concise portrait, a court dwarf out of Velasquez. Says Bouché: "A court jester, but also a desperately serious woman who considers herself a serious critic of society...
Woman! (CBS, 11-12 a.m.). The Marriage That Failed peers earnestly into the causes and available cures for marital failure in the U.S. Hostess: Margaret Truman Daniel...