Word: vietta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eyeglasses. That boisterous Democratic spirit has not flagged in Private Citizen Truman. At 72, his grey hair is thinning, his belt is let out a little (Vietta Garr, the Trumans' longtime cook, has orders to hold down on her specialty, chocolate pie). Nowadays, without the White House valet to start him out, he sometimes wears his tropical suits a day too long. The white dress shirts of his presidential days have given way to soft sport shirts, the crisp handkerchief is no longer inevitable in his breast pocket...
Other participants in the symposium will be Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Elliott Coleman, Richard V. Chase, Jr., Egon Fritz-Vietta of Germany, Charles L. Stevenson, and Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic...
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