University Daily Kansan, October 22.1982
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only brief at the reception, but Carter and Ford staved longer.
Hart, who visited frequently with Truman until her死日, said after the service that he had several enjoyable conversations with Truman before her last drawn-out illness.
"I would say that up until about 15 months ago she was in good spirits," said Hart, who had taken a photo of her.
"She was really a great woman. She was witty,
kind, gracious, individually minded and had strong religious feelings. She had an alert mind and had stayed in touch with politics."
DURING THE final months of her life Truman was unable to speak, so she communicated by squeezing his hand and by eye contact. he said.
"She was aware of who people were up until
the end," he said. "I don't think she was in pain, but she was uncomfortable."
Hart said Truman's last few years were sprinkled with moments of loneliness.
After the burial several Missouri politicians passed along their personal feelings about Truman's contributions as first lady.
"I think it is appropriate, as in the words of the sermon, that we can rejoice in the life and contributions of Bess Truman," Bond said. "In the recent days since her死, we have many mibrutes about the type of person she was, and she has become an important contribution she made, and we can feel only a sense of gratitude that we were very fortunate to have a person like Bess Truman."
Other politicians hailed her as a devoted wife and mother and a sympathetic and caring public leader.
Truman home future unsure
By United Press International
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.—The future of the century-old Victorian mansion Harry and Bess Truman called home for more than 50 years was uncertain after the former first lady's death.
"I would like to see the Truman Library run it," said Margaret Truman Denise, the only child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, located about a mile from the Truman home, was built in 1867 with private funds, but is now maintained by the federal government.
in approximately 1867 by Bess Truman's grandfather, a lumber entrepreneur. Mrs. Truman's father died when she was 18, and the mother went to live with her grandmother there in 1903.
The white-frame, 17-room mansion, was built
FOLLOWING BESS and Harry Truman's marriage in 1919, they moved into its their home. While Truman was president, it also served as the summer White House.
"Mrs. Truman's house never was the kind of home where friends and neighbors dropped in casually for a cup of coffee," said retired United Press International reporter Margaret Richards, who covered the Trumans following their return from the White House.
Again also fondly recalled Harry Truman and his sister Marv.
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her, she always knew you after that wherever you saw her."
"When I worked at the post office when Truman was president, whenever he'd come home, he'd hide from the Secret Service and come talk to us for awhile," she said. "He'd even talk to the window clerks, which was what I was. He never missed."
Agn went to grade school with Mary Truman and recalled her sense of humor.
"She had freckles and she'd laugh about it and say, 'I don't know why they don't put me in a cage, because I look just like an old turkey hen.'" Ain said.
AS A GIRL, Mrs Truman was baptized in the first Presbyterian Church. She later became a nun.
In 1892, while in Sunday school classes at the Presbyterian Church, she met Harry Trump.
"really admire Mrs. Trugman because of her womanly qualities," she said. "This is something I think we all should emulate. I don't think we need to know how much she contributed to our community."
MILLIE NESBITT, Independence city councilor, was in the room looking at pictures of Bess Truman's maternal grandparents. George and Frances Truman started one of the first mills in Independence.
The Rev. Thomas Melton, First Presbyterian Church, was a neighbor to the Translars for the Prairie School.
"Mrs. Truman was a neighbor to all of us. History will always be kind to the memory of Bess Truman, and time will not fade our memories of Bess," he said.
Exiled Colombian novelist given Nobel literary award
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Exiled Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, banned from the United States for years because of his radical politics and friendship with Cuban President Fidel Castro, won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday.
The Royal Swedish Academy announced the award to Garcia Marquese, 45, for his works, which the academy said "reflected a continent's life and conflicts." He is the first Colombian, and only the fourth Latin American, to win the prestigious Literary prize.
The prize this year is worth $157,000.
His 1967 novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - the saga of a Latin American family in a Jungle city that is eventually occupied by a soldier over 10 million copies in 32 languages.
BUT IT HAD been his revolutionary political views, as well as an intimate friendship with Castro, that has kept Garcia Marquez barred from entering the United States, except under strict guidelines issued by the State Department.
It was only through the personal intervention of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who once quoted from "One Nation Under God" that Garcia Marquez was issued a visa to accept an honorary degree at New York's Columbia University in 1971.
"I was told to pick up a visa at the embassy," Garcia Marquez recalled. "It said, 'for lecture at Columbia University.' That is now the formula. Every time I go to the United States, the fiction is that it is for a lecture at Columbia University."
IN MEXICO CITY, where the writer lives in a huge colonial house in a wealthy neighborhood, Garcia Marquez met with reporters to talk about the Nobel award in a private library, where a picture of Castro hangs on one wall.
"What is happiest is that they have given it to a Latin American, for sentimental reasons and for the possibilities that this opens for a participation in Central America."
The writer, displaying the political beliefs that have irritated U.S. officials for years, said the United States and Honduras were "deeply angry" with "strong army" to invade left-learning Nicaragua.
"If this occurs there would be a war of unpredictable proportions. We must make sure that this does not occur," Garcia Marquez said.
THE OLDEST of nine children born in a town on Colombia's Caribbean coast, Garcia Marquez has lived a nomad's life of exile since moving to Rome in 1954.
After the Cuban revolution in 1959, he helped found the Cuban news agency, Prensa Latina, and was its correspondent in New York. He also went to Angola to study Cuba's role in Africa.
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