One of the hardest jobs the President had to do last week was to sit still in Key West while his daughter made her radio debut in Detroit. Margaret had a good choir-average soprano voice, and she had trained it faithfully for years. Had she been anyone else, most of the U.S. would have missed her show. But now a record 15 million listeners waited for the worst.
On the crowded stage of Detroit's Music Hall, Margaret faced the nearly empty auditorium in a blue, off-shoulder gown and a mantle of apparent composure. The Music Digest Sunday Evening Hour tactfully announced...
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