Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maryland-born Ed Darby will take with him many pleasant memories of the two men whom he had come to know well as Presidents of the U.S.: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Truman was one of the nicest men to be around," said Darby. And so was Ike. "Only once that I know of has Ike got sore at me," he recalled. "That was when he read a TIME personality piece in which I reported that on occasion his temper boiled over violently and he expressed himself in fine barracks-room language. Purple-faced, Ike denied my report...
...Paul Douglas for scholarly character, Alabama's Senator Lister Hill for hard work, Texas' Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for planning ability, Alabama's Representative Frank Boykin for handshaking, Coca-Cola's James J. Farley for his memory for names, Independence's Harry Truman for the common touch, Mrs. Richard Neuberger (wife of Oregon's junior Senator) for her campaign ability. Notable modest omission: Tennessee's Presidential Candidate Estes Kefauver for his White House fixation...
...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
Married. Ilona Massey, 43, blonde, Budapest-born film and TV actress (Rendezvous, Curtain Call); and Donald S. Dawson, 46, lawyer and onetime administrative assistant to President Truman, quizzed by Senator Fulbright's subcommittee in 1951 about his connections with Washington influence peddlers and RFC loans; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Juarez, Mexico...
...public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department of Agriculture under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt ... He accepted special wartime assignments under Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. He resigned from federal service to become president of Kansas State College and later became president of Pennsylvania State College-one of the best college executives in the country. The name, if you have any doubt, is Milton S. Eisenhower...