Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days were heavy with fog and rain. The Trumans passed them in relative quiet. With White House Physician Wallace Graham, an orchid fancier, the President clambered 1,000 feet up precipitous Corcovado Mountain behind the American Embassy. They found six orchid plants, one in bloom. Mrs. Truman and Margaret went out shopping, bought handbags, filigree jewelry and carved wooden animals. The President made a surprise appearance at the opera, drew a wild ovation...
...with only a single rehearsal. It played an all-Gershwin concert under Paul Whiteman's baton; it struggled through an evening of "Music of the Americas" led by Xavier Cugat (who complained bitterly during, a 1946 rehearsal that the orchestra failed to "pay him any respect"); it accompanied Margaret Truman's concert debut...
...Said Margaret's mother: "I prayed very hard before she came that she would have an extra amount of wisdom, and it's really there. . . . When I used to sing nursery rhymes to her, she would try to pick out the notes on the piano. Then on St. Patrick's Day last year, she crawled up on the piano bench and played Mary Had a Little Lamb all the way through. I phoned a couple of our friends so they could hear...
Cats & Dogs. Margaret, who will be four this month, started taking lessons last fall and has already learned 18 pieces. Being a little girl, she never sits still very long, so her teacher gives her only 20-minute lessons. Margaret can now read music, but can only pick words like "cat" and "dog" out of her nursery books. (Still, she likes to make a try at reading newspaper headlines, and last week told her mother, "Here's Bilbo on the paper...
...practices for a half or three-quarters of an hour twice a day, but her mother says, "There's nobody here to get upset over it if she doesn't keep any certain schedule. We want her to grow up like a little girl." Says Margaret: "Sure, I have fun when I practice. I always hope that if I keep practicing, I won't have to take a nap. Don't like naps...