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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sellout. Far & away the biggest-and most worrisome-event in Harry Truman's holiday week was a concert at Constitution Hall. The artist: Soprano Margaret Truman. In all paternal pride, the President wanted his daughter's Washington debut to be an unspoiled success-and hers alone. He did his best to keep out of the spotlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 6575 on Your Dial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...their country house, are ready for them, Elizabeth and Philip are staying on with the family at Buckingham Palace. Late in the week, they ducked the annual Christmas Party for the Palace servants, to dine quietly with the Duchess of Kent. For a dancing partner Elizabeth's maid, Margaret MacDonald, had to make do with King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honeymoon's End | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Manhattan café that calls itself the Royal Chicken Roost offered Singer Margaret Truman a six-week engagement, with options, at $10,000 a week. The management's extra persuasion: "We would even change our name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...James N. Hill, widow of the son of the great railroad builder, for marrying Charles Blevins Davis, friend of President Truman and onetime escort of Margaret Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In & Out | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find her cute. However, it is likely that millions of people will think her adorable and will titter delightedly over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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