4 §0— Lishuma are Ot COL LEO TOOLING A + BS = PANNED MARGARET’S VOICE Blasts Musie Truman you'll need a new nose and plenty perhaps a supPres. Harry S Truman wrote a of beefsteak and ‘lmusie critic this week threaten- porter below. a gutter“Westbrook Pegler, ‘ling to beat him up’ for panning compared snipe, is a gentleman _|daughter Margaret’s singing. to you. You can take that as more The story leaked out piece-meal of an insult than as a reflection Friday. critic for the Hume, Paul Post, Washington resed discloin sponse to inquiries that he got a : long-hand letter on White House Wednesday stationery Soe The House, White signed | also in “H. 7 re- -|sponse to inquiries, confirmed that the president had written Hume. Neither would give reporters the text of the letter, but the Washington Daily News said it “goes | | .|like this’: just J have .| lousy read your .|review buried in the back pages. .|You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success on a_ fourman an eight-ulcer ulcer job, and | ing. “T all four ulcers ) ; never met you, but work- | ancestry.” your on Hume said the letter he received was “similar to but not identical with” by the the text as published One White House News. president’s the said also Hume, general same of the was source letter tenor. does 165, weight 34, time a hard ident’s weight keeping the 180 below not pres- Ibs. is: “A a close Hume said his attitude man suffering the loss of friend and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an sional outburst of temper.” occa~- ) Charles G: Ross, the president's |press secretary, died Tuesday—a if I do ‘few hours before pie Miss gave a concert in Constitution hall | here. Hume, in his review of the con- Truman is: “ex- Miss cert, said “but cannot sing the on attractive tremely very stage” well.” “She is flat a good deal of the time,”’ his review continued. “‘There are few moments during her recital when ome can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, is the end of the song. which “And still the public goes pays the same price it would and pay the world’s finest singers. ‘Tt is an extremely unpleasant duty to record such unhappy facts for expect to meet up with the 66-yr.old Mr. Truman, whose physician has Sram Critic in Letter — (®)— 8 Dec. WASHINGTON, ate neemae) etna Truman about so honestly appealing a personality. But as long as Miss Truman sings as she has for three years, and does Friday, we seem to have no recourse unless it is to omit comment on ber programs altogether.” Pegler, News mentioned version | in the Daily of Mr. Truman’s let- ter, is a syndicated columnist who has often been critical of the Tru; man administration. : |