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Died. Demaree Caughey Bess, 68, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Far Eastern expert who, at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, reported that Stalin not only expected war in Europe but welcomed it; in Manhattan...
Presidents' wives and presidential families can always dominate Washington society. But they often haven't wanted to bother. Perle Mesta nailed down the top hostess title in Harry Truman's day because Bess Truman abdicated; in the Eisenhower years. Gwen Cafritz reigned because Mamie Eisenhower didn't care to. But Jacqueline Kennedy does care. Not since the time of Frances Cleveland, 65 years ago, has a First Lady cared nearly so much. And what she and Jack Kennedy care about is not the money and power that mattered in the Mesta-Cafritz days, but brains...
Pioneers in the Gaslight Square venture are the Mutrux brothers, Dick and Paul. In the early '50s, they bought the old Musical Arts Building (here Miss Bess Morse once operated an "expression school," where Tennessee Williams and William Inge put on some of their first plays) and opened up a colorful saloon called the Gaslight. The neighborhood then was a collection of seedy secondhand stores and a community of couldn't-care-less flat dwellers. Following the Mutrux brothers was self-styled "Environmental Engineer" Jimmy Massucci, who opened up another saloon, the Golden Eagle, near by; then...
...Married. Bess Myerson. 37. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Enjoined by Wife Bess not to "show off like you usually do," Harry Truman, 77, was flawlessly decorous as he bestowed the Yale Club of Washington's annual "distinguished achievement" award on his last Secretary of State, Dean Acheson ('15). Responding to Truman's description of him as "one of the greatest of the great Secretaries of State,'' Acheson hailed his "beloved chief" as "a Yale man in every sense of the word,'' reminisced admiringly that "in the Truman Administration you often got shot in the front but never in the back." Summed...