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Since the letter was sent by President Truman to Mr. Hume, the original letter was in Mr. Hume-s possession, not President Truman-s, and consequently did not come to the Library as part of the President-s papers. Hume sold the letter in 1951, for $3,500.
Mar 14, 2002 · Lying side by side, a stone's throw from the White House, are Harry Truman's infamously intemperate letter to Washington Post music critic Paul Hume and the Aug. 6, 1945, logbook of the...
- Philip Kennicott
Hume was best known for his critical review in December 1950 of a concert by Margaret Truman and the scathing letter he later received from her father, President Harry S. Truman. Truman called Hume "an eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."
Though conceding that Miss Truman was "extremely attractive," Paul Hume, the "Post's" music critic, stated bluntly that "Miss Truman cannot sing very well" and "has not improved" over the years. The president wrote the following letter to the 34-year old Hume, whom he compared to the columnist Westbrook Pegler ("a rat," in Truman's view).
(Ferrell notes that Truman's infamous letter to music critic Paul Hume, who had panned a recent singing performance by Truman's daughter Margaret, "was just one among dozens of such epistles," [1]: 3 most of which were caught before sending by Truman's secretaries or Truman himself.)
- Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell
- 1980
Aug 2, 2024 · Letter to critic Paul Hume, as quoted in Time magazine (18 December 1950) On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy.
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Between his week's more important chores, Harry Truman did penance for his hotheaded note to Washington Music Critic Paul Hume (TIME, Dec. 18). To his intimates, the President's moments of...
