House & Garden Harry S. Truman received a gift from the James F. Byrneses: a double portrait, in oil, by Grace Annette Du Prê, of himself and his 93-year-old mother. Another recent portrait of her already hung in his second-floor study.
Juan Perón's wife Eva went shopping in Buenos Aires for a new carpet for the presidential nest, picked up one for $30,000.
Andrei Gromyko, who has been penned up in the Plaza on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, got hold of a country place on the plushy north shore of Long Island.* The main diggings (in...
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