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Word: bess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After nine weeks of intermittent babysitting in Manhattan, Grandpa Harry Truman and Grandma Bess were sad and glad to be relieved of their duties. They hustled little Clifton Daniel, 3, and his brother William, I, down to a pier where the boys' parents, Margaret Truman Daniel and New York Timesman Clifton Daniel Jr., disembarked from the liner United States after a European tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...have piano lessons." At Central State College in Ohio, Leontyne discovered she had a voice, went on to Juilliard, where Critic-Composer Virgil Thomson heard her and asked her to appear in his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. From there she joined the touring revival of Porgy and Bess and married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mistress of Stage & Score | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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