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Harry Truman fussed about what was to be said. Bess Truman fussed about what was to be seen. But daughter Margaret prevailed. Last week, with Ed Murrow covering the British elections, Margaret Truman took over his CBS-TV Person to Person show in Manhattan, and from that distance visited her parents and her home in Independence...
Most of the talk was natural and easygoing, and Interviewer Margaret had the situation under control all the way. At one point, when Bess Truman was walking from one room to another and murmuring under her breath, Margaret said firmly, "No kibitzing, Mother. No kibitzing. No kibitzing." Bess Truman stopped murmuring. Toward the end of the show Margaret asked what advice her parents had about raising children. Said Harry Truman: "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them...
...additional Western Union circuits operating at one time to New York. They tied up so many wires that there were not enough left to send out the text of the President's press conference, and the Times had to give some of the lines up. Meanwhile, Times Correspondent Bess Furman took the filmed copy of the background papers to New York. (Excerpts were printed the day after the full conference record appeared...
...Play. In Cape Girardeau, Mo., arrested for running through a stop sign, Dr. Paul G. Wolff followed the police car to headquarters, paid a $7.50 fine, then swore out a complaint charging Sergeant Clifton Bess with speeding...
Willis Wayde's fiber proves much tougher than the thinning Harcourt strain, and Bess would like to love him-but how can she really love this solemn youngster who reminds her of Uriah Heep? She drops him for a gentleman who plays good tennis and wears the right kind of white ducks. At that point, a chilling transformation begins in Willis. Slowly his eagerness turns to cold ambition, his good manners into a calculating weapon, his yen to be like the Harcourts into an unconscious drive to destroy them...