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...other off-beat projects: Edward R. Murrow's I Can Hear It Now album of historic speeches, the prestigious Literary Series, with such authors as Somerset Maugham and William Saroyan reading from their "own works, and album revivals of old musicals (the Pal Joey and Porgy and Bess albums have, in turn, sparked Broadway revivals...
...Died. Bess Streeter Aldrich, 73. novelist (Miss Bishop) and short-story writer, whose tales of pioneer life in Iowa and Nebraska delighted women's magazine readers for two generations; of cancer; in Lincoln...
...title obviously taken from the old riddle: Elizabeth, Lizzy, Betsy and Bess All went together to seek a bird's nest; They found a nest with five eggs in it; They each took one and left four...
Halfway through, in need of a fresh character, Author Jackson invents still another Miss R., a money-loving witch named Bess. By that time Miss R. is whirling through personality changes like a shifty quarterback on a hidden-ball play, and the reader is in need of a score card...
Braving 20° weather, Harry and Bess Truman, along with daughter Margaret, who came home for the holidays, mustered slightly frozen smiles at a ceremony in Independence, Mo., where the former President snipped a 30-ft. red ribbon to open a new section of the 20-mi. Truman Road trafficway. Later, warming up to his subject at an indoor luncheon, Truman made a plea for safer driving, said he hoped the thoroughfare "will be used for traffic instead of a new scene for slaughter...