Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman whirled around Washington at a dizzy pace. Not once, but twice, he tootled off to the National Gallery of Art to inspect the famed collection of German paintings (see ART). With Mrs. Truman and Margaret, he took in the premiere of a new movie, State of the Union, at Loew's Capitol. He went to the Gridiron Club's spring dinner at the Statler, where he made a speech and sat through a couple of hours of heavy-handed lampoonery...
Later in the week, the Prince entertained all the Trumans at a dinner in Belgium's marbled and luxurious Foxhall Road embassy. The Belgians found Margaret Truman charming. One of them playfully told her that, because she always sang solo, he could outdo her as a singer. He then proceeded, to the delight of both Margaret and her father, to sing all four parts of a quartet from Rigoletto...
...Actress Margaret Sullavan (The Voice of the Turtle) sued Agent Leland Hayward for divorce after nearly twelve years, three children...
...Princess Margaret* had a busy week among the gossipists. First they had her about to be engaged to Prince George of Denmark, 28-year-old military attaché at the Danish Embassy. (He flatly denied it.) Two days later the Sunday Pictorial declared that the No. 1 man in the picture was really the 30-year-old Earl of Derby, "Britain's most eligible bachelor...
...According to the list of royal preferences sent to Australia in anticipation of the royal visit in 1949: Princess Margaret strongly objects to being called Princess Margaret Rose, the name by which she was known as a child...