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Between his week's more important chores, Harry Truman did penance for his hotheaded note to Washington Music Critic Paul Hume (TIME, Dec. 18). To his intimates, the President's moments of glum self-appraisal seemed mostly concerned with his daughter's instant reaction to the first news of the letter-her "absolutely positive" belief that her father would never use such language. The President was also a little taken aback at the worldwide sensation his mule skinner's phrasing...
Mail Call. But such contrition was not enough to undo the damage. The impact of the Hume note had given all the President's private correspondence an enormous curiosity value and had prompted the world to expect the worst. A letter to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward Hebert, which ordinarily would have aroused only passing interest, made Page One and caused a second round of lugubrious headshaking...
...Critic Hume, who started the whole thing by calling Margaret's singing unprofessional, began a review of another recital last week: "If I may venture to express an opinion...
...Critic Hume was the only one concerned who seemed to have kept his head. Said he: "I can only say that a man suffering the loss of a close friend [Press Secretary Charles G. Ross] and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of temper...
Margaret, on concert tour in Nashville, refused to believe the news. "I am absolutely positive my father wouldn't use language like that," she told reporters. "In the first place ... my father wouldn't have time to write a letter . . . Mr. Hume is a very fine critic. He has a right to write as he pleases...