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...them with food at 25% below retail prices; the Bank of America is financing the Sears food plan on six-month loans. Big Amana Refrigeration, Inc. (TIME, Jan. 16, 1950), which makes freezers for Maytag, got a head start on the freezer boom because one of its distributors, John Bess, pioneered one of the biggest food plans in the East. Through his Freezer Owners Association of America, Bess has made his pitch in 22 East Coast cities, including New York, Philadelphia and Providence; last year he moved $3,000,000 worth of freezers and 2,000,000 Ibs. of frozen...
Truman raced tonelessly through the concluding sentences of his prepared speech, snapped shut the leather notebook with his script and stepped back from the lectern. He came forward again when photographers summoned him and smiled, a little tightly. He turned to Bess Truman, who had risen, and drew her into range of the television cameras. His smile broadened, and he backed away again and, parting a curtain, left...
...Bess Truman came up and was about to get in their limousine when a reporter asked: "Are you happy over that decision?" The reporter and all Washington knew the answer to that. She has borne stoically the very unwelcome burdens of her husband's position, and she has dreaded the possibility that he would run again. Bess Truman's reply to the question was in line with the self-effacing role she has played so well in the White House...
...face was familiar to Capp but the name escaped him. When Fosdick's bride first turned up in the strip several years ago her name was Bess Backache...
...well-advanced that the decorators are due this week to install draperies and carpets. Truman recalled a legend that the Civil War President still walks the Lincoln Room. Once, when two school friends of the baby (Margaret Truman) were sleeping there, he said, he suggested to the madam (Bess Truman) that he might arrange for the ghost to really appear. (He didn't say how.) Bess thought it would scare the girls to death, and vetoed the idea...