Word: besse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bess Truman had grown used to the lurking Secret Service men, the brass and braid and cutaways and gowns, the flashbulbs, limousines, interviews and stares. Benefits, teas, parties, receptions, christenings, and the daily quick changes from short skirts to long were now routine. She was booked solid through April, and looking forward...
...ladies of Washington." That night Harry Truman sent everybody off to the Shrine Circus. Mrs. Truman was very gay until a clown 'tried to sit on her lap. "That will be enough," said the First Lady firmly. Thereafter, and throughout the evening, the ladies noticed that Bess looked rather grim...
...week's end, after tramping through the Capitol, taking a little trip on the presidential yacht Williamsburg, and turning down an invitation to a reception by the Missouri Society, the ladies and their hostess were ready to call it a mutually satisfying experience.* The ladies had reminded Bess Truman of Independence. For months to come, they would remind Independence of Bess Truman. They had played bridge just once...
...months at Decca, Heifetz has recorded, among other "Americana," glossy Negro spirituals and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. His second Decca album, out this month (Gershwin, arranged by Jascha Heifetz; Decca, 8 sides), contained Porgy and Bess songs and three Gershwin preludes, brilliantined up with double stops and Heifetz glissandi. Although the violin is probably the instrument least suited for jazz solos, Decca announced that Heifetz' next album will be Hexapoda-"five studies in Jitteroptera." Said Decca's President Jack Kapp: "If Bing can sing Ave Maria, why can't Heifetz do boogie-woogie...
When Willie Shakespeare, rumoredly at the behest of good Queen Bess, goes all out for "slap me on the ischium, and pinch me on the mammae," the result is good fun, but who said clean. When the stock company undertakes to spice it up a bit, where the heck was Jim Curley's sister...