My middle name is Strange

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Dec 11 10:16:26 PST 2002


Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> I suppose older geezers than I already know this, but I thought this was
> even better than the fact that Harry S. Truman's middle name is "S."

I've always known that, but it occurs to me that I never even wondered whether it should be written

Harry S. Truman or

Harry S Truman

And I can't recall now what the usage was in headlines, news articles, magazines, etc. There must be some facsimiles of his signature on the web someplace.

Carrol



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