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...Washington, one of the capital's most striking relatives back in the Herbert Hoover era broke into the papers again with a bang (and a Hat) the day after the great Republican landslide. Photographed with Bess Truman at the Washington Club was Dolly Gann, onetime vice presidential sister, whose brave struggles in the capital's social war used to make national news...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...Married. Bess Myerson, 22, musically ambitious Miss America of 1945 (5 ft. 10 in.); and Allan Wayne, 27, doll company executive, ex-Army Captain (6 ft. 1 in.); in White Plains...
...amateur correspondents-presidents and press chairmen of Los Angeles clubs. Like clubwomen everywhere, they habitually send their local papers the kind of disheveled copy that prematurely ages the editors of women's pages. Last week, for the sixth time in six years, Los Angeles Times Club Editor Bess Wilson crisply told them to mend their ways...
...Bess Wilson, these spare-time journalists are no Helen Hokinson characters. "These women are hard workers . . . and they're alive to the forces around them." But she did wish that they'd learn to spell, stick to facts instead of gossip, and get their copy in while it was news...