Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike most U.S. ex-Presidents, Harry Truman has never seemed stumped over what to do for an encore. Putting in frequent hot licks on his memoirs, building his $1,750,000 memorial library, gadding off to Democratic clambakes to give 'em hell while television cameras strain on their dollies to keep up with him, he obviously has no yen to let history pass him by. Last week bee-busy Mr. Truman had his most historic week since leaving the White House. First, he hopped up to Milwaukee to accept a $5.000 Steinway grand piano (for the library) from...
...scooted back to Kansas City for an open-air performance of the musicomedy Call Me Madam, in which Musicomedian Truman was to surprise everybody by taking the stage to play himself in the last act. Good trouper though he is, he never made it. During the first act, grimacing in pain from what he thought was acute indigestion, he left the theater. Twenty-seven hours later, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, relieved Harry Truman of a red-hot appendix and a gangrenous gall bladder. Practically bouncing off the operating table, Truman, in "excellent" condition, was a good...
Died. Robert N. (for Newton) Denham, 68, onetime (1947-50) general counsel of the NLRB, whose ouster in 1950 climaxed a running three-year battle between Republican Denham and President Truman over the interpretation and jurisdiction of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones (TIME, March...
...test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the U.S. is: 1. Nixon 3. Eisenhower 5. Stevenson 2. Hoover 4. Truman Eisenhower, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3-standing for Eisenhower-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...