Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK appears this week on TIME'S cover for the tenth time-oftener than any other living man. Only the Generalissimo's archenemy, the late JOSEPH STALIN, had been a TIME cover subject so often. Runners-up: PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, nine times; former PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN, SIR WINSTON CHUCHILL, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR and the late FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, eight each...
Born to Rule. Thirty years an M.P., twelve a Cabinet minister, he is Britain's best-informed diplomat, its most seasoned negotiator. Yet his career has been a narrow one that lacks the human breadth of a Churchill's, a Truman's, or an Eisenhower's. Eden has seldom strayed beyond the polished confines of Westminster and Whitehall, and his public sense does not derive from an easy personal acquaintance with the common man. Far more, it is an inbred instinct, the product of Eden's membership in that unique class of Englishmen...
...handsome Richard Graves,, defeated Democratic candidate for governor last year, who proceeded to insult Butler to his face while 1,000 delegates cheered. The party leadership, he snapped, "must earn its right to lead." Graves thereupon analyzed Democratic troubles. "We have stood in the long shadow of Roosevelt and Truman," he cried, and apparently "can only win when people are hungry. We must be able to win in time of prosperity. We must be a party of principle and program-and that we have not been. We cannot do it by this form of political cannibalism in which we spend...
...Manhattan's chichi El Morocco nightclub, Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc.'s President Marilyn Monroe suddenly found herself in the arms-loosely speaking-of truncated Author-Librettist (House of Flowers) Truman Capote, as he tried one of his rare excursions on a dance floor and looked as if he preferred puppy-dogs' tails to little girls...
...Harry Truman, who once threatened to punch Washington Post Musicritic Paul Hume in the nose after Hume hinted that Daughter Margaret's voice was maybe not operatic, went in for some critic's art himself. Reviewing a record album (The Confederacy, Columbia SL-220, $10) for The Saturday Review, Critic Truman found its songs and readings "excellent." After that, Truman happily digressed to one of his favorite pastimes-a folksy War-Between-the-States history lesson, second-generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed...