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...Harry S. Truman, Truman...
...gargantuan 20,000-word interview in Rolling Stone, with Andy Warhol asking the questions, Truman Capote talks about a rambling array of subjects, including his half-finished, long-promised 800-page novel, Answered Prayers. It is, says Capote, about real people after World War II. One of them is a 19-year-old college girl who has an affair with her roommate's father. And the father is presidential timber. At least he thinks he is. Before four consecutive nominating conventions, he confidently expects to be the Republican candidate. Who is the character modeled after? Capote coyly refuses...
...Harry S. Truman, Truman...
...accounts the Chinese welcome his appointment. Bruce, nominally a Democrat, has served under every President since Harry Truman and thus enjoys the support of both U.S. political parties. He is the same age as Chou En-lai and only five years younger than Mao Tse-tung-a fact that runs against the American obsession with youth but fits in congenially with the Chinese respect for age and experience...
...universities of Maryland and Virginia. At various times he was elected to both the Maryland and Virginia legislatures and was a banker and manufacturer of parachutes. During World War II he directed the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. foreign intelligence unit. After the war, Truman appointed Bruce, in quick succession, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, head of the Marshall Plan Mission to France, and then ambassador to France...