Word: margaret
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Paul Hume, a well-grounded student of music, had come to the widely shared conclusion that Margaret just "cannot sing very well." He wrote: "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality. She is extremely attractive on the stage. Yet . . . there are few moments during her recital when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song...
...have just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an 'eight ulcer man on four ulcer...
...Margaret, on concert tour in Nashville, refused to believe the news. "I am absolutely positive my father wouldn't use language like that," she told reporters. "In the first place ... my father wouldn't have time to write a letter . . . Mr. Hume is a very fine critic. He has a right to write as he pleases...
...little later, when the White House confirmed that the President had indeed written the scurrilous letter, Margaret retired behind a "no comment...
...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...