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Harry Truman wanted to go home to Missouri for the weekend. So he and Bess Truman set out for Independence, by plane...
...abandoned itself for five days last week to a ponderous appraisal of the female mind. The occasion: the annual Miss America contest. The prize: a $5,000 college scholarship offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The winner: Miss New York City, a Hunter College graduate named Bess Myerson, who excels at the flute and pianoforte...
Ever since Eleanor Roosevelt left Washington last April, the 70 members of the Mrs. Roosevelt's Press Conference Association (founded in 1941) have faced technological unemployment. Bess Truman simply wasn't giving them anything to write about. Last week the President of the M.R.P.C.A., who is the New York Daily News's bland, blue-eyed Ruth Shick Montgomery, served notice on the new First Lady that she had better change her attitude-or else...
...Bess Truman, who has not yet been labeled pink, white, or red by the Russophobe press,, calmly accepted membership in a new organization set up to replace books destroyed by the Nazis in Russia. Her jawbreaking title: Honorary Chairman of the English Classics Collection of Books for Russian War Relief...
...Philharmonic, going it alone, catches the playful bustle of An American in Paris (Columbia, 4 sides). ¶Porgy and Bess, fancied up in a symphonic version by Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symphony (Columbia, 6 sides), and more glossily by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony (Victor, 6 sides), is best in its original operatic mold (Decca, 14 sides). ¶Andre Kostelanetz spreads his corn syrup over The Music of Gershwin (Columbia, 8 sides...