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Born. To Margaret Truman, 33, daughter of ex-President Harry Truman, and Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr., 44, assistant to the foreign editor of the New York Times: a son, their first child; in Manhattan (see PEOPLE). Name: Clifton Truman. Weight...
...vows are sacred," memoired Margaret Truman recently, "and I hope that mine will be spared the hurly-burly attending a news event." Last week in Trinity Episcopal Church at Independence, Mo., where her parents were married 36 years ago, Margaret, now 32, saw her hope accomplished; she became Mrs. Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. with more dignity and less hurly-burly than a former President's daughter and TV-radio star could expect...
...long as you're covered up you'll be in style!" Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during six years in the Times's London bureau, developed an ulcer during a shorter (1954-55) stint in Moscow. Father-in-law-to-be Truman was "awful glad" that Cliff Daniel...
...weather the social tides of the New Deal. In 1927-29 Taylor paid off $340 million on the company's bonded indebtedness so that when the crash came the company was financially secure. In 1937 he broke with the antilabor, coal-and-iron police tradition of Founder Elbert Gary, became the first steelmaker to sign with John L. Lewis' C.I.O. According to legend, the crack in the ranks of steel came one day in Washington's Mayflower Hotel lobby, when handsome Mrs. Taylor spied Lewis' leonine head, bade her reluctant husband: "Myron, I want to meet...
...California court, Tyrus Raymond ("The Georgia Peach") Cobb, 68, always a crusty gamecock on the baseball diamond, faced a $50,000 personal injuries suit slapped on him by Elbert D. Felts, oldtime Pacific Coast Leaguer, ex-hunting companion and ex-friend of Cobb's. Felts claimed that Cobb, outraged because he had been stuck with a dinner check, attacked him and aggravated an old back injury. The jury, though not exactly swayed by Ty's plea of self-defense (he has had two heart attacks), decided that Felts's injuries did not merit payment of damages, voted...