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...they are plotting against your dad," Senator Harry S. Truman complained to his daughter Margaret back in 1944. "Every columnist prognosticator is trying to make him V.P. against his will. It is funny how some people would give a fortune to be as close as I am to it, and I don't want it." Her father's reason, revealed by Margaret in LIFE's excerpts from her upcoming biography, Harry S. Truman: "I'd rather not move in through the back door." Truman suspected that Franklin D. Roosevelt would not survive another term in office...
THURSDAY: In Cold Blood. From Truman Capete's new-journalism non-fiction novel, director Richard Brooks has made a realistic murder story...
...intelligence during World War II and Korea; in Naples, Fla. One of the "Bataan Boys" who fled from the Philippines with MacArthur in 1942, Willoughby spent the next nine years as the general's confidant, companion and alter ego. After his mentor's ouster by President Truman in 1951, Willoughby retired from the service to collaborate on an authoritative but adoring biography, MacArthur...
...railroad manipulations in the unsuspecting Grant's time besmirched his reputation for a century and altered the politics of the day. Teapot Dome, which blew up after the death of Warren Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused his popularity to plummet to bedrock. And when Bernard Goldfine's rug was found in the living room of Sherman Adams, the White House Iron Man of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, the national outcry reached such a pitch that Ad ams resigned in something like...
...Councilman Carter Burden-the quintessential Beautiful People of a few years back -had split. As usual in matters concerning the B.P., Women's Wear Daily was there first with the most gossip. "I wouldn't exactly call Amanda a walking example of Women's Liberation," Author Truman Capote told their reporters, "but I think she wanted to establish some identity for herself." Explained another friend: "Carter wasn't considerate of Amanda-one of those machismo things." What about the rumors of a romance with Teddy Kennedy, which the Senator has consistently denied? Those rumors...