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PITTSBURGH, Civic Light Opera: Cab Calloway crooning through Porgy and Bess...
...fastened, as the New York Times was constrained to note, "with a great buckle smack in the middle of her back," and completed by a matching stole forming "a portrait collar." So appropriate! Seasoned critics appraised it as authentic early '64. More yet. The outfit, explained Bess Abel, Mrs. Johnson's social secretary, had been bought by Thrift Shopper L.B.J., who used to tote home most of his wife's wardrobe in the days when he had time for such activities. Now that she can suit herself, Mrs. Johnson wears clothes mostly chosen by Neiman-Marcus. L.B.J...
...gone now Ain't no use a-listenin' For his tired foot-steps Climbin' up the stairs. Porgy and Bess...
Mitchell's Beethoven, Stern's Mozart and Cliburn's Liszt were impeccable, and a Duncan-Coleman medley from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess got rousing cheers, despite complaints next day from critics over the absence of works by living American composers. There were plenty of living celebrities at the reception that followed: Marian Anderson, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Paul Horgan, Peter Kurd, Jasper Johns, Erich Leinsdorf, Robert Lowell, Gian Carlo Menotti, Anna Moffo, Mark Rothko, W. D. Snodgrass, Edward Steichen, Richard Wilbur, Herman Wouk and Minoru Yamasaki...
Eleanor Roosevelt, of course, all but made the role of First Lady an official national office. Harry Truman called Bess "the boss"-and in many ways she was, though she never pretended to be more than a displaced housewife. Once Truman found her burning some of the letters he had written to her. "Bess, you oughtn't to do that," protested Harry. "Why not? I've read them several times," said Bess. "But think of history!" pleaded the President. "I have," murmured Bess as she tossed the last bundle into the fire. Mamie Eisenhower, always the general...