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...anger resists unified field theories. It is a mystery. The angriest Harry Truman ever got was the time the music critic of the Washington Post criticized his daughter Margaret's singing. Truman threatened the man with bodily harm...
...rain clouds dispersed just a little too late, and I was shocked to find the ceremony moved from the parade field to the community center. It was strange; ever since Reception Day the weather here has always been - rather suspiciously, in fact - right on cue. (Ever see "The Truman Show"?) Frosty for morning PT, warm and crisp for the training day. Clear and sunny often and whenever it had to be, inclement only for special occasions. For our days out on the rifle range, reliable sun. For the road march out to Victory Forge, merciless rain the whole six miles...
DIED. ED CLARK, 88, LIFE photographer and candid chronicler of such Presidents as Truman and Kennedy; in Sarasota, Fla. He is best remembered for a 1945 picture of a grief-stricken bandsman playing an accordion at a train station following the death of Franklin Roosevelt...
...snoozed through the State of the Union, or maybe you were watching WWF Smackdown on UPN instead. Here's the lowdown: at 89 minutes, it was the longest personally delivered State of the Union speech ever. (In 1946, Harry Truman sent his 25,000-word message to be read by a clerk. It took more than three hours.) Clinton spoke 9,298 words at 104 words per minute, a leisurely pace compared with his 9,375-word, 116-words-per-minute marathon in 1995, delivered in 81 minutes. The 2000 address received a record 119 ovations. Not one Supreme Court...
Recently John Irving attacked Tom Wolfe as being unreadable. Wolfe responded by attacking Irving as being washed up as a novelist, along with Norman Mailer and John Updike, who had attacked Wolfe earlier. So it has always gone. Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, it's typing." Gore Vidal on Capote: "He has made lying an art. A minor art." The novelist James Gould Cozzens, perhaps expressing sour grapes of wrath: "I cannot read 10 pages of Steinbeck without throwing...