>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.
On the White House web site, there's no period <http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/>.
Doug