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in the places where most people are white. She was very bright pink, as though had been sunburned, but she hadn't. She was blonde, but the kind of blonde that makes you suspect the bottle. She wore great big thick spectacles. She had a kind of turned-up nose and a little prissy mouth. It was a kind of mean little mouth. She spoke very little, as though she didn't have anything to say. I think she was awfully bored. She was a French widow, and I think he met her on some Israel business. She's a French Jewess. She doesn't look Jewish at all. She's a very different type. She doesn't look like an intellectual. Her conversation was scarcely anything, although I made an effort to make conversation with her. She apparently speaks perfectly good English and understands English, but I felt as though she were bored, as many people are bored by these affairs. Mrs. Jim Farley used to be bored to death by these formal dinners for instance. Incidentally, he wasn't there, but after all he was never a member of the Truman Cabinet.

The Times-Herald goes on with the others who could have been there. W. Stuart Symington was there with his wife. Kenneth Royall, who had been Secretary of the Army, was not there. Then they mention the deceased Lewis Schwellenbach, Robert Batterson, Bob Hannegan, Jim Forrestal, lckes, Stettinius, and Henry Stimson. I can see why they didn't ask Jane lckes. They would have had





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