Harry Krause wrote:
thunder wrote:

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:56:07 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:


On the ship itself, is it Harry S Truman or Harry S. Truman? The first is
correct, the second is not.

Interesting, I haven't found a picture showing the name on the ship, but
according to this link it's S. You better keep it quiet, Harry. It'll
cost us a fortune to fix that mistake.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/s..._bt394-98.html



President Truman used to call the "dayside" at the KC Star on occasion
to speak with the copy chief and remind him there was no period after S,
and that he had no middle name. At least twice a year, the dayside Star
got it wrong.

Those of us on the "nightside" of the paper, the am Times, knew better.
The best copy editors worked the night shift and they beat "proper Star
style" into us. Nothing was worse than being a "newbie" on that paper,
sitting in the front row, and hearing "BOY!?" over the loudspeaker. You
looked up and there was a 70-year-old grammarian staring you down from
50 feet away. Gulp. "Don't you know there's no period after the S in
Truman's name, boy?"

BOY!? was the universal greeting for a first-year reporter. It mattered
not what gender or color you were.




Hmmm Krause trying to pretend he knows something??? anything at all???
I smell another Krause lie he-)

Truman did not have a middle name so I guess technically the correct
written form probably might not have a period after the "S".

Anal Krause has then concocted this lie around that well known, trivial
& rather boring fact. From there on in I think the story is a full on
fabrication. The bit about "President" Truman ringing (pre 1953) is very
suspect in itself (Krause was at best a toddler, I use "was" because
it's still not likely he has the brains to stand upright & walk:-)) &
it's either local paper story telling or just yet another outright
Krause fabrication; as all his other lies are.

However what Krause clearly doesn't know was that Truman himself used a
period after the "s" in his own correspondence when he worked in a bank
pre President, letterheads and even his written Presidential signature,
so it seems most unlikely that during his Presidency he took to ringing
a local paper in Kansas, because most of the world puts a period after
the "s" even today.

The usual sad pathetic Krause BS. Oh well suppose we're lucky he didn't
claim to be related:-) however hold onto your keyboards for the "named
after" claim:-)

Here's a couple of addresses for you to check dots upon dots by Truman
himself!!!! Remember the library he raised the money for & set up
himself??? seems to also use Truman's preferred written form:-).

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/letter/anniv3.jpg
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/letters/de3110p4.gif
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/truman.htm
or here at "his" library where he's buried
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
or does this sound like a friendly just phoned for a chat with the
President relationship???
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/places/kc1.htm

So Mr E I'd hold off on being too noisy with your son if people use a
period after the S when referring to Truman or the ship, because
believing Krause is asking to look an uneducated simpleton; like him.

Candidly I doubt the US navy would get that wrong whichever way they
have chosen to write it. For me the real tribute is to have a period
after the "S" in full knowledge of the facts & accepting with respect
the owner used that written form himself, whereas it's offensive when
the wanna be liar union lefty hangers on like Krause try for the
politically correct amendment.



K