In a message dated 7/27/2006 3:00:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > born in Missouri - in 1944 Margaret Truman christened the battleship > Missouri > at the Brookyn Navy Yard with "Missouri champagne" Nilita in his memoirs couldn't understand why the American people put Harry Truman into the office of the presidency, "He was the most obstinate ; and difficult to negotiate with ,unforgiving ..just look at the way he went after those reporters who critisized his daughters singing " After Beria ,(who was shot after trial a year after Stalins death ) Kruschev was Stalins chief in the Ukraine during the great Terror (purge that killed millions 37-38 ) . Once during a drunken dinner with Stalin , Stalin ordered Krushev to do a paticular folk dance ( the difficult Cossack dance that the dancer crosses his arms and kicks his legs out from a squating position ) Kruschev the son of a miner couldn't dance ...on this night he did ...fearful that if he couldn,t carry it off it would be the end for him .........PY on Cape Cod > > -- > -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>