Word: gunston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half a dozen graduates of Washington's now defunct Gunston Hall school for girls got together last week to celebrate the 27th birthday of their friend and classmate Margaret Truman. The night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...
...Marg" has a lot to tell her girl friends these days. She has come a long way since she first arrived at Gunston Hall 17 years ago as the obscure daughter of a freshman Senator from Missouri. In those days Margaret's classmates sometimes twitted her about the "silent Senator" who never opened his mouth on Capitol Hill. Margaret herself, a competent scholar and an indifferent athlete, got scant attention from her contemporaries-until, one day at recess, they discovered that she could hit a higher note and hold it longer than anyone present...
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