From: Bill Lucy 

In article , gmcaloon_2000
{at}Yahoo.com says...
> >In reply to your recent letter, the "S" in Mr. Truman's
name stands for
> >the first letter of the first name of each of his grandfathers. In order
> >to be strictly impartial in naming him for one or the other, he was
> >given the letter "S" as a middle name. It can be used
with or without a
> >period after it.
> >
> >Sincerely yours,
> >
> >Rose A. Conway
> >Secretary to Mr. Truman
>
> Obviously somebody should inform the Park Service that they got it wrong.
>
> The secretary not only got it wrong, since Truman himself used the period,
but
> not using it implies that the S is itself a name and he himself says it is
not,
> but rather the first letters of two people.  Apparently he went to Podunk U.
if
> he supposes an S can stand alone in this context. But then we are talking
about
> a Southern practice, in case you were not aware of that either.

Right as rain, again, G.e.n.e.

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