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Honor to the Bride is an excellent example of the "nonfiction novel"-the literary genre Truman Capote regrets ever having invented. The plot complications are as intricate as an arabesque. They entangle myriad relatives, neighbors, judges, seers and policemen, each sketched with a few vivid strokes, all involved yet all laughing at the convoluted action...
...crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice...
...since Harry Truman jettisoned his Secretary of Commerce, Henry Wallace, in 1946, had there been such a publicly bitter parting in a presidential family. Back at Interior, Hickel summoned reporters and announced tensely: "The President personally terminated me about two hours ago." His unapologetic explanation for his career at Interior: "Trying to do a job for the President and for all Americans, and still survive as an individual. I had to do it my way." Nixon left it to Press Secretary Ron Ziegler to report his reasons: "The President feels that the required elements for a good and continued relationship...
Presidents midway through their first term sometimes find their popularity skidding. Harry Truman entered the White House at F.D.R.'s death with a favorable Gallup poll rating of 87%. By October, 1946, the figure dropped to 32%, but Truman won two years later anyway. Particularly interesting in the current Harris poll, however, is the extent of disaffection with Nixon's conduct in this fall's campaigns. Among those polled, 6% rated his campaign performance as "excellent," 29% as "pretty good," 25% as "only fair," and 30% as "poor...
...liver cirrhosis; in Athens. During the Communist rebellion of 1947, he voluntarily stepped down as Premier to assist in the formation of a broad centrist coalition, but stayed on at the Foreign Ministry, where he was instrumental in bringing King George II back from exile and negotiating with the Truman Administration for the massive military and economic aid that was to end the revolt...