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The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.
Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.
Truman Capote, who helped spread salacious rumors about Hoover, once remarked that he was more interested in making Hoover angry than determining whether the rumors were true.
* Local Color ( book ), a 1950 note and sketch study by Truman Capote
* Local Color, European travel essays by Truman Capote published in 1950
At Mademoiselle magazine, a young editorial assistant named Truman Capote spotted one of Bradbury's short stories, " Homecoming '".
* 1924 – Truman Capote, American author ( d. 1984 )
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Breakfast at Tiffany's, based on the novel by Truman Capote, is credited with establishing him as a " cult figure " with many critics.
* Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism Award Winners
As well as his love for music, he was also a voracious reader, and his literary inspirations included Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Robert Burns and Dylan Thomas.
Hemingway and Chandler and Stephen King wouldn ’ t be seen dead in a ditch with a semi-colon ( though Truman Capote might ).
Wesley Morris of the San Francisco Examiner called the film " a romantically labyrinthine tribute that piles layers of inter-textual shout-outs to All About Eve, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Federico García Lorca and Alfred Hitchcock, and beautifully assesses the nature of facades.
Blixen was widely respected by contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway and Truman Capote, and during her tour of the United States in 1959, the list of writers who paid her visits included Arthur Miller, E. E. Cummings, and Pearl Buck.
* Truman Capote ( uncredited ) as Winner of the Truman Capote Lookalike Contest
The show was filmed in London and the screenplay was written by Truman Capote.
Category: Screenplays by Truman Capote
The county seat, Monroeville, is the home of two notable 20th-century authors, Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, who were childhood neighbors.
Logan later admitted to the author and journalist Truman Capote about Brando, " I ’ ve never worked with such an exciting, inventive actor.

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* 1945 – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office ; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
The Cold War ( 1947 – 1953 ) is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.
Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans ' Hospital is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
“ There is no prospect of ever winning Russian cooperation .” Despite its reservations, the 80th Congress implemented Truman ’ s requests, further escalating the Cold War with the USSR.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the president.
Beginning in 1947 during the Harry S. Truman administration, every Thanksgiving the president is presented with a live domestic turkey during the annual national thanksgiving turkey presentation held at the White House.
The Department is headquartered in the Harry S. Truman Building located at 2201 C Street, NW, a few blocks from the White House in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D. C.
Harry Truman | Truman reconstruction, 1949 – 1952, a steel structure is built within the exterior shell.
* July 8 – WWII: Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the reign of the Emperor.
* November 15 – The Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas is brutally murdered, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
* November 28 – Truman Capote's Black and White Ball (' The Party of the Century ') is held in New York City.
* The Truman Show ( 1998 ) is a film about a man ( Jim Carrey ) who discovers that his entire life is being staged and filmed for a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.
He is the subject of the song " Harry Truman " written and recorded by Irish band Headgear, which features the refrain, " You can move the mountain but I'm never coming down ".
" It is not known whether the writer of the film had Truman in mind when creating this character.
He credits James Goodby ( of the Brookings Institution ) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( although it is not quite verbatim ): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King ( probably drafted by Vannevar Bush – or so Bush claimed in 1970 ) referred to " weapons adaptable to mass destruction ".
The Mutual Security Act of 1951 is a United States federal law, signed on October 10, 1951 by President Harry S. Truman, which authorized nearly $ 7. 5 billion for foreign military, economic, and technical foreign aid to American allies ; the aid was aimed primarily at shoring up Western Europe, as the Cold War developed.
Truman announced before describing his proposal that: " This is not socialized medicine ".

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We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
And those still with us, Herbert C. Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
He still performed major extended compositions such as Harlem ( 1950 ), whose score he presented to music-loving President Harry Truman.
Early in 1952, while Stevenson was still governor of Illinois, President Harry S. Truman decided that he would not seek another term as president.
The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U. S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the " slave-labor bill " while President Truman argued that it was a " dangerous intrusion on free speech ," and that it would " conflict with important principles of our democratic society ," Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.
Nonetheless, Truman still looked outside the formal NSC mechanism for advice and recommendations, relying on the NSC as much for staffing and coordination of interdepartmental views as for primary recommendations.
As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “ containment ” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.
While Acuff did relatively well and helped reinvigorate Tennessee's Republicans, his opponent, Gordon Browning, still won with 67 percent of the vote. And U. S. President Harry Truman won Tennessee's electoral votes that year in his comeback bid for reelection.
While Bridges still advocated the post-war plan for industrial peace that the Communist Party, along with the leaders of the CIO, the AFL and the Chamber of Commerce, were advocating, he differed sharply with CIO leadership on Cold War politics, from the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine's application in Greece and Turkey to participation in the World Federation of Trade Unions.
President Truman later felt that it was not right for people to walk over it, so when the White House was renovated again in 1948 he had the seal removed and placed over the door to the Diplomatic Reception Room, where it still is today.
Preceded by Lamm's nostalgic " Harry Truman " (# 13 ) as lead single, Chicago VIII was held over for release until March 1975 as Chicago VII was still riding high in the charts.
It was published because Truman was expected to lose the 1948 re-election. When passenger trains were still the preferred mode of intercity transportation in America, observations often were used by those campaigning for public office, especially for the Presidency of the United States such as United States Railcar No. 1, the Ferdinand Magellan.
Truman, still smarting from the defeat, was mollified somewhat by Black's hospitality ; as he told Black, " Hugo, I don't much care for your law, but, by golly, this bourbon is good ".
Communist expansion into what remained of “ free ” South-East Asia ( apart from Japan, which was still under U. S. occupation at the time ) seemed inevitable, and so the U. S. government under Harry S. Truman began to revise their position.

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