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Jerry Ford moved in genial confusion through the Midwest last week wearing his WIN button and the same blue suit two days in a row. He stayed in Harry Truman's old suite at the Muehlebach in Kansas City and was made a member of the Future Farmers of America. He did not dodge any protesters or reporters. In Sioux Falls the supporters of George McGovern were swept into his hammy grip just as readily as others...
...show was the Broadway musicalization of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. After disastrous previews, Breakfast was ceremoniously folded by Producer David Merrick, who was no kinder to Mary than he was to Valerie; the Prince of Darkness referred to the flop as "my Bay of Pigs...
...statesman and global philanthropist; in New York City. A born salesman, Hoffman quit college at 18 to sell Studebakers in Los Angeles, cleared his first million at age 34 and became president of Studebaker ten years later. Impressed by his success in turning the ailing auto firm around, President Truman asked him in 1948 to head the Marshall Plan; over the next 2% years Hoffman dispensed more than $10 billion to revive Western Europe's war-shattered economy in a successful effort that brilliantly proved his argument that "prosperity is the best antidote to Communism." As chief...
There is something for everyone in the programs and displays at presidential museums. As an introduction to the Truman museum, a documentary movie called, "For All the People," is shown in the 251 seat auditorium. It describes the facility as "a storehouse for the imagination...with various incongruous elements of history from which our lives are built." Museum objects include documents, photographs, portraits, cartoons, murals, uniforms, flags, weapons, table services, Bibles, furniture, cars, coins, ship models, and gifts to the Trumans from all over the world. Incongruous indeed! A visitor can hardly fail to find at least one link...
...question. At the Hoover Museum one of the exhibits displays K'ang Hsi and Ming porcelains collected by Mrs. Hoover between 1899 and 1901 when Hoover, an engineer, (with what a government brochure calls "an international reputation as a `doctor of sick mines'") worked in China. At Independence, Truman's Masonic memorabilia are displayed with pictures of 14 other presidents who have been Masons. In the Eisenhower Museum the large collection of World War II weaponry and a sample of moon rock from the Apollo 12 mission are focal displays. In all of the museums, where trained specialists continually...