Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adieus. A little later Assistant Press Secretary Eben Ayers issued a noncommittal report on the tea. Said he: "Madame Chiang and Mrs. Marshall had tea together with the President and Mrs. Truman, with Margaret pouring, from 5 to 5:30. Then the President and Madame Chiang went to the President's study and talked for the next half hour. The President said Madame Chiang had stated her case and he had listened sympathetically. Then Madame Chiang rejoined the party and said her adieus...
...months ago the Royal Chicken Roost was just another basement Broadway joint, specializing in Southern fries. It enjoyed a brief notoriety last December when it offered Margaret Truman $10,000 a week for a personal appearance and was politely refused. A short time later it dropped the "Chicken" and became the country's principal showcase for what its earnest admirers call "progressive" music...
Died. Sir Clarence Henry Kennett Marten, 77, gruff, kindly provost of Eton since 1945 and onetime tutor to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret; of a heart attack; in Windsor, England. A historian who taught his royal pupils history and constitutional law, Sir Henry spent 60 years at Eton as student and teacher, was knighted on the chapel steps...
...indicate a vacilating or pliant personality; it was not an invitation to conversation. It was, however, an indication of a very sunny disposition. She can read a lengthy stretch of medieval constitutional law (lapsing occasionally into Latin and Anglo-Saxon) with all the gusto and delight of Mary Margaret McBridge revealing a new recipe for banana cream...
Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle, 50, wartime U.S. ambassador to the European governments in exile, now an Army colonel, and third wife Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, fortyish; their first child, his second, a son; in Washington. Name: Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. Weight...