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...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...
...trades and traders. The Republicans were sure that such a list would reveal the names of other important Democrats. They also knew, of course, that the list would contain the names of some important Republicans. But the committee could choose which big names to put under its investigative spotlight and which to keep in the background. They asked Anderson to produce the list...
...painfully esoteric writing, but now it seems to have arrived safely on firm, green ground. The current issue combines the magazine's previous virtues with a new one, short stories that are worth the type they use. Now the consistently fine poetry, drawings, and makeup all yield the spotlight to the place where it belongs-on the fiction...
...seized the spotlight yesterday in the all-out campaign for Freshman Smoker Committee berths, as two local stripteuses, Sally Keith (above) and Scarlett Kelly, nothing loth to free improvement of social relations, willingly gave a helping hand to resourceful politicians of the Class...
Lena Horne, a café au lait beauty, was not the kind of a girl to come onstage the way Josephine Baker had, with only a string of bananas girdling her hips. Obviously nervous, dressed in a square-shouldered white gown, Lena flashed her magnificent teeth in the spotlight and curtsied demurely. Then, as the lights went down and the rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time...