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...Harry Truman and Bess, too warm in a mink cape and navy blue taffeta, tried in vain not to steal the show. They wanted to be as inconspicuous as any of the other 1,100 guests at the wedding of Treasury Secretary John Snyder's hearty, handsome daughter Edith ("Drucie") to John Ernest Horton, a personable former White House social aide, soon to be a movie pressagent. Drucie's best friend, Margaret Truman, was maid of honor...
...Married. Edith Cook ("Drucie") Snyder, 24, only child of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; and Major John Ernest Horton, 30, White House aide; he for the second time (first wife: Cinemactress Frances Rafferty) ; in Washington...
...prosecution had saved its biggest surprise for its rebuttal-a small, quiet-spoken Negro woman named Edith Murray. The FBI had been looking for months for a maid called Edith who had worked for the Chambers in Baltimore, where, the Hisses both swore, they had never visited the Chambers...
...Chambers, testified Edith Murray, had had only two visitors "that I know of"-a woman and her husband. "Stand up out of that chair and point her out," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy. The witness stood up and pointed unhesitatingly at Priscilla Hiss. "This lady, right there," said Edith. "She came and stayed overnight one time when [Mrs. Chambers] had to go to New York." She also remembered Mr. Hiss. Edith Murray was the first witness to corroborate the testimony of intimacy between the two families. The defense could not shake her story...
...later became Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, then editor of the leftish, ill-starred New York Star. But the interruption was only momentary. Field poured money into Red activities, put on $100-a-plate dinners for C.P. causes, slavishly followed the party line-and married wealthy Edith Chamberlain Hunter of California, who was once a diligent worker in Red vineyards, but who describes herself vigorously as not a Communist...