People, Mar. 19, 1956

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After a weekend spent with his folks in Zebulon, N.C.. Margaret Truman, 32, returned to Manhattan with 43-year-old E. Clifton Daniel Jr., to be met by newsmen insistent for word of romance from them. Grinning, but ducking the big question, they taxied away together. Half an hour later, in a hastily called press conference in Independence, Mo., Papa Harry Truman gave out the happy word that Margaret was engaged to marry "Cliff" Daniel, onetime London and Moscow cor respondent and now assistant foreign editor...

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