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Died. Mrs. Bess Fosburgh Kaiser, 64, wife of Tycoon Henry J. Kaiser (ships, cars, aluminum, steel); of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif. She met Kaiser in 1905, when he was making a bare living developing snapshots, married him two years later. She made most of her husband's business trips with him, camped in tents during his early days as a building contractor. After she became ill 18 months ago, Kaiser stuck close to their Oakland apartment, slept on a cot outside her room...
...Delaware Street. Margaret's mother, a reticent woman who has never made any bones about preferring Independence to Washington, did her best to pull the White House blinds down. "I will always be a part of Missouri," said Bess Truman. In Missouri, "nice people" do not peer into other nice people's windows...
...gingerbread Wallace house on Independence's elm-lined North Delaware Street, where Judge and Mrs. Harry Truman lived with her mother, little Margaret was brought up under fond, watchful eyes, in carefully guarded privacy. Bess and Harry were doting parents, partly because their only child was born to them late, when each was close to 40, partly because she was a delicate child thin and pale, with frequent deep circles under her eyes. There were other doting relatives: a cluster of uncles and aunts Mrs. David ("Grandmother") Wallace. Bess's mother, and redoubtable Grandmother ("Mama") Truman. Margaret admits...
...Hicks. Margaret's best friends in Independence today are the half-dozen girls who lived within a block of her grandmother's house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known...
Like many an only child, Margaret could produce a serviceable tantrum herself if the occasion warranted. Once when her parents were about to go visiting, leaving her behind, Margaret flung herself into a crying fit. Harry and Bess were firm, firmly departed. "As soon as they were out of sight," says Margaret, "I promptly turned off the weeps." Generally, her parents were more amenable. "I never bawled out Margaret but once in my life," the President confesses, without specifying the cause...