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...hothouses with a sharp sense of the pretensions by which publishing people define their territory. There was the society editor who was "a friend to the rich, a brute to her researcher"; the entertainment editor who sat behind an "enormous mahogany desk, taking phone calls from Marlene Dietrich and Truman Capote"; the editor in chief who addressed long letters to the staff with "Dearly Beloved Family...
...diaries record practically everything Ellis said, did, thought, felt, read or saw, accompanied by copies of newspaper stories he wrote as well as letters he sent and received. This glorious mishmash constitutes an informal history of 20th century America by an inquisitive writer who interviewed everyone from Harry Truman to Irving Berlin to 50-cent whores in the slums of New Orleans. Ellis has willed his diaries to New York University; some professional historians regard them as a national treasure...
...ARGUMENT OVER WHETHER USE OF the atom bombs, as opposed to a full-scale invasion of Japan, actually saved Japanese lives is completely irrelevant. After 3-1/2 years of war, President Truman's duty as Commander in Chief was very clear: to end the war quickly and save as many lives as possible . THOMAS E. TELL JR. Somerville, New Jersey Via America Online...
WHILE THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO PERISHED in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have my heartfelt sympathy, I cannot help wondering how different history would be if President Truman had decided not to drop the Bomb. The hundreds of thousands who would then have died could have been Indonesians, Koreans or other Asians killed in a Japanese invasion. Hiroshima and Nagasaki remind us how innocent people become casualties of war-a war they may not want to support. At least the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped prevent what could have been the obliteration of humans on an even larger scale. CHANDRA DEWI...
...Soviets' test of their first atomic weapon in 1949 that galvanized Washington and U.S. scientists. Something bigger, exponentially more powerful than the atom bomb, had to be built, argued physicist Edward Teller. When Harry Truman was told of Teller's design for a hydrogen bomb, code-named Super, the President said, "What the hell are we waiting for?" The U.S. effort went into overdrive, partly because Washington suspected--rightly, as it turned out--that the Soviets were developing a Super of their...