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...kind of weekend the President loved. That afternoon there was a picnic for Bess Truman's mother, Mrs. David W. Wallace; the next day a formal birthday dinner in her honor. Harry Truman got a rare opportunity to drive his own car when he went over to visit his mother again, accompanied only by a secret service agent...
Charles Sparks Thomas is a prosperous Los Angeles cloak-&-suit merchant. He has never run for office or made a political speech, and never wants to. Until a few months ago, his closest brush with politics was a matter of geography; he was born next door to Bess Truman's girlhood home in Independence, Mo., 48 years...
Last year, New York's bargain-priced City Opera Company broke opera's rigid color line by presenting Todd Duncan of Porgy and Bess fame in Carmen and I Pagliacci (TIME, Oct. 8). and followed it this year with Negro Soprano Camilla Williams as Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success...
...With Bess and Mary Margaret Truman off vacationing in Independence, Mo., he was a summer bachelor. One night he invited 13 members of the White House staff to the National Theatre to see Olsen & Johnson's boisterous Laffing Room Only...
...Bess Truman proved to have been concealing an old aptitude. The Kansas City Star plucked an item out of its files, repeated the news 40 years after. At the annual field day at Miss Barstow's School, Bessie Wallace (Truman) had placed third in the shot...