Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in the days when Truman Capote wore bangs, he wrote a short story called House of Flowers about the ladies of a bordello on a Caribbean island. When he expanded it into a musical comedy in 1954, it fairly swarmed with talent-Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll sang, Geoffrey Holder danced, Balanchine worked on the choreography, Oliver Messel designed the sets, and Harold Arlen turned out a lilting, lyrical musical score. Nonetheless, House of Flowers faded fast...
...COLD BLOOD. Truman Capote's non-fiction novel has, in the capable hands of Director Richard Brooks, become an excellent movie...
...those deferred for college have enough love of country to volunteer. Every President who fought our wars has been swept into office. Start with Andrew Jackson, then Lincoln, then peace-at-any-price Wilson, who changed his mind and fought, and F.D.R. and the classic example of Harry Truman...
From the sound of the listings and the fury of the drumbeating, last week was no time to leave the TV set. ABC was offering an updated version of the 1944 film mystery Laura; the adapter was no less than Truman Capote, and Princess Lee Bouvier Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's sister, was in the title role. NBC, meanwhile, had ponied up an unprecedented $112,500 for TVs first preview of a Broadway-bound drama, William Hanley's Flesh and Blood, starring Kim Stanley, E. G. Marshall and Edmond O'Brien. Yet neither work played...
Vantage Point. Political handyman for three Presidents, Clifford has liked it that way since he left the White House in 1950 after mapping Harry Truman's 1948 "Give 'em Hell" campaign. His only major official tie to Government is the unpaid chairmanship of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees all espionage operations. Yet from this unobtrusive vantage point, Clifford is counted one of the five most powerful men in Washington next to the President. With McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, he formed...