* Harry S. Truman, above, regarded his...

* Harry S. Truman, above, regarded his mentor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a strong leader but weak administrator whose ego sometimes led him to mistakes. Truman discussed his boss in a posthumous book, “Where the Buck Stops,” to be published late this month by Warner Books. It was edited by his daughter, Margaret Truman, who said her father wanted its publication withheld until after he and his wife, Bess, died so that he could be candid.

* A third-grade class in Old Saybrook, Conn., appealed to billionaire developer Donald Trump to buy a historic carousel and save it from being sold piece by piece at auction.

* A 22 1/2-foot-tall paper clip was unveiled outside a business college in Oslo to honor Johan Vaaler, the Norwegian who invented the office helper 90 years ago.