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...historians have ever tried to defend "Bloody Mary." Roman Catholic Historian Hilaire Belloc sought to soften the impeachment by showing how bloody was the age in which she lived and how well-deserving of the same epithet were "Bluff King Hal" (her father) and "Good Queen Bess" (her half sister). But none has succeeded in presenting Mary against the background of her time with quite the acumen and diligence of H. F. M. (for Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott, a sometime Oxford lecturer and novelist (The Man on a Donkey-TIME. Sept. 22. 1952). First published (under the title Spanish Tudor...
...Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily free of both Benton's swagger and Wood's snigger...
Although Motorist Harry Truman told reporters that he was just "perking along" as he drove west with Bess after their week's New York visit, to Pennsylvania Patrolman Manley Stampler it looked more as if he were zipping along. The trooper flagged Harry down on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for cutting in front of passing cars-notably his own patrol car. "I just warned him not to do it again,'' said Stampler. "Mr. Truman promised to be more careful...
...driver, a middle-size, friendly sort of fellow, and his wife checked in quietly, but a reporter was soon on their trail. Even the cost of their dinner ($1.72 for two) and the size of the tip (35?) were carefully noted. Harry Truman granted that he and Bess were not having much luck traveling "incognito...
Having spoken, Harry Truman slipped behind the wheel of the Imperial, Bess got in the front seat beside him, and they rolled on east. A day and a half later the ex-President, in shirtsleeves, drove up in front of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. It was the Trumans' first return to the capital since they left on Jan. 20, and they just wanted to "have a good time" before pushing on to Philadelphia and New York. Would Truman see President Eisenhower? No, said Harry. "He's too busy to see every Tom, Dick and Harry that...