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...family servants (ex-Sergeant John Moaney, Ike's longtime orderly, his wife Delores, who will preside over the upstairs kitchen, and Rose Woods, Mamie's personal maid) had to be squared away. Then there was the question of the press. The First Lady quickly decided on a compromise between the Eleanor Roosevelt system of weekly press conferences and the Bess Truman system of none. Mamie would hold nonpolitical conferences whenever she had anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mamie's Week | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Willful Murder." In Tokyo last week a U.S. Army court-martial, headed by a major general and including a WAC lieutenant colonel, heard the prosecution accuse Dorothy Smith of "willful and premeditated murder." Shigeko Tani, her Japanese maid, testified that she found the colonel bleeding to death in bed and Mrs. Smith, in bra and panties, clutching a bloody, ten-inch-long hunting knife. A neighbor, Lieut. Colonel Joseph S. Hardin, found the defendant sitting alongside her dying husband, trying to light two cigarettes at once. She blurted out: "I'm sorry I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Neurotic Explosion | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...return call on the presidential mansion. The Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet's Korean maid (who said later that she still thinks Cardinal Spellman the nicest American), and said goodbye all around. At 8:01 p.m., just three days after his arrival, Ike's planes took off for Guam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: The Korean Trip | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Wednesday's article on the favorite maid contest included a statement by three Lowell House students about their House favorite that they have since completely retracted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Enter False Quote on House Maid | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

...more to a poor taste of humor than anything else, we included a statement about our maid never touching our liquor without asking,' which is completely false...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Enter False Quote on House Maid | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

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