People: People, Feb. 4, 1946

Honors

Harry S. Truman won life membership in the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc.

Madeleine Carroll, peaches-&-cream cinemeritus who set an example that few movie stars followed and fewer equaled—she quit Hollywood fame & fortune for three solid years of war work—was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. France paid tribute to her Red Crossing among soldiers during the liberation, her broadcasts boosting Franco-American understanding.

Mrs. George Lucas of Lafayette, Ind. (1944 pop. 30,746) was judged the Typical American Housewife by a national...

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