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...more immediate level, the Student Council took up the issue of the European food shortage. After President Truman called on the nation to curtail food consumption and conserve grain in late September 1947, enthusiastic members of the Council spent months wrangling over the implementation of a University-wide conservation program...
...Anti-Masonic Party nearly wiped the group out. The Masons eventually bounced back as the preferred club of the country's merchant class--the Strauss family reportedly built Masonic columns into New York City's Macy's--and again as political incubator. The two Roosevelts, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman all belonged. After World War II, G.I.s who had enjoyed its patriotic but egalitarian flavor abroad returned to swell the lodges...
...TRUMAN SHOW (June 5). Truman Burbank is the only man on earth who doesn't know he's the star of a popular 24-hour soap opera. As Truman, Jim Carrey inhabits director Peter Weir's bogus universe with a heroic gentility. But will Carrey's rowdy fans skip Truman? Or will the audience that might appreciate an adult parable stay home because, hey, it's just a Jim Carrey movie? One industry savant says not to worry: this canny film will reach both groups and gross $200 million...
...then U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor--"to help." As in any good circumstantial case, McLarty's scrawl can be linked at least coincidentally to a result. Within weeks, Hubbell landed $100,000 in consulting work from Ron Perelman's Revlon as well as from Texas businessmen Bernard Rapoport and Truman Arnold. The Revlon job was facilitated by Jordan, he later acknowledged, foreshadowing Jordan's more famous landing of a Revlon job for Lewinsky this past January. McLarty told investigators that he and Jordan felt "empathic" toward Hubbell and moved quickly to find "some opportunities" for him in the private sector...
...HARRY S TRUMAN...