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...woman—at the time in short supply on Harvard’s all-male campus—not for her dedication to the theatrical arts, but for her good looks. The members of the society approached Margaret Truman—President Harry’s daughter. Ms. Truman declined...
...originally designed as a ruse to bring an eligible debutante to the blue-blooded club. While that failed, press attention began before anyone accepted the Pudding’s offer. In 1949, The New York Times reported on the club’s failed attempt to recruit Margaret Truman. The next year, the paper printed the Pudding’s 1950 letter begging the pleasure of Sharman Douglas’ company, advising the young socialite that the “well-bred” from Harvard’s “bluest-blooded band?...
...distorting his son's character and record. And sometimes he would write a letter in his mind to the offender ("You threw everything at him, but it did not work"), and then when he was about to sit down at his PC and fire it off, la Harry Truman, he thought better of it and swallowed the idea. Maybe that sort of thing will show up in any new memoirs he may write, but not now. Family first...
...where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without subtitles ("Gets in the way of the picture," the master pronounces). Francis Ford Coppola is "like a little boy, living entirely in his imagination with the difference, the great difference, that with Francis images always come true...
...spirit of the Marshall Plan, the party of Truman should also propose funding for local non-governmental organizations working to promote development. Large middle classes have historically been favorable to democracy and able to put pressure for reform on their rulers. By fostering the spread of literacy and education in the developing world, and helping a global middle class to emerge, America can encourage the diffusion of stable democracy...