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...That's all right," Farley told him. "Mrs. Farley is a loyal wife. . . . Bess feels we have been treated like poor relations. We are never invited to the White House except for purely official functions...
...Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
...blue spring evening in Exeter, N.H. in 1850, Judge Henry Flagg French sat thoughtfully composing a letter to his brother. "Will you be so kind," he wrote, "as to ask Bess in what order I had determined to use up the family names for my boys. They come along so slowly that I have most forgotten. One of them was born yesterday morning at six o'clock, and I believe the name of Daniel...
...confided to a U.S. newsman that of the new works he had heard he liked best Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger's Third ("Liturgique") Symphony. He considers Stravinsky and Gershwin the best U.S. composers (he likes Porgy and Bess particularly because "it is expressive of a people"). What did he think of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, which he also heard for the first time? Said he: "I like his other works, but I was not impressed with this symphony. ... I had a feeling that...
...Bess Myerson, who was Miss America 1945, was picked to be Queen of Cotton* at the International Textiles Exposition in Manhattan next month. She slipped into a little something cotton to show that she was born to rule...