Word: bess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a small crowd waited in the 20° cold at Kansas City's Fairfax Field to watch the presidential DC-6 Independence land after a four-hour trip from Washington. Kansas City shoppers hardly bothered to look as the President rode through town with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret. Their police escort and the driver of their maroon Lincoln dutifully stopped at all red traffic lights...
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Lawrence Winters, baritone; Camilla Williams, soprano; Inez Matthews, soprano; Warren Coleman, baritone; Avon Long, tenor; orchestra and chorus conducted by Lehman Engel; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The first complete recording of Gershwin's jazz classic reveals that the work does not add up to the sum of its memorable parts. Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', It Ain't Necessarily So still sparkle like diamonds, but in an ocean of dross. Recording: excellent...
...town aboard the Independence, bound for Kansas City. For the last hour of the trip, the big plane skimmed low over the newly flooded areas of the Kaw Valley in eastern Kansas. "It looks pretty bad," the President remarked as he landed in his home state. He saw Bess, waiting. "I'm as tired as I can be," he sighed...
...bold mare Bess bestrode...
...mustered up all the power of his office to make their return to Washington a private affair. He complains often and bitterly about the intrusions of the presidency on his family life. Democrats who argue that the President will not run again in 1952 base their hunch principally on Bess Truman's well-known antipathy to life in a goldfish bowl...