Word: bess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Browsing through the stacks of cards and telegrams that poured in from round the world, Harry S Truman quietly passed his 84th birthday at home with Bess in Independence...
...myriad details of this week's wedding is the First Family's social secretary, Elizabeth Clements Abell, 34. Working from a sheaf of check lists and a mammoth plastic-covered map of the White House on which the nuptial traffic flow is charted with a grease pencil, Bess Abell has organized the operation down to the last hairdresser's appointment and millimeter of guest space (2 sq. ft. per person). The last White House wedding of a President's offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary William McAdoo...
...Bess Abell is admirably qualified to organize White House social functions. The daughter of former Kentucky Governor (and later U.S. Senator) Earle Clements, she supervised 34 state luncheons and dinners this year alone, and prepared Luci Baines Nugent's wedding last year. "Luci's was a dress rehearsal for Lynda's wedding," she says. Formal weddings are a vicarious thrill for Mrs. Abell: she eloped with Attorney Tyler Abell, 35, a former Assistant Postmaster General. "Working on these two weddings," says Bess, "has given me no regrets...
THANKSGIVING DAY PARADES (CBS, 10 a.m. to noon). Arthur Godfrey (in Toronto), Bess Myerson and Mike Douglas (New York), Jack Linkletter and Marilyn Van Derbur (Philadelphia) and Fran Allison (Detroit) give curbside comment on a medley of parades...
...five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered comfortably in Palm Beach; summers were given oyer to sailing on Long Island Sound, first in the family shell boat, and then, when Bus was nine, in his own boat: a Star. That August, with...