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Margaret Truman in Toyland
Spokesperson for
Manufacturers
BY BEVERLY BEYETTE
Times Staff Writer
Margaret Truman Daniel is sitting in
her room at the Beverly Wilshire with
a teddy bear propped on one side of
her, a Raggedy Ann doll on the other
She is holding a word game compu-
ter toy called Sensor which, for the
moment, seems to be besting her. She
pushes another button and waits-still
no bleeps.
"Oh, I haven't turned it on," she
says, enjoying the joke on herself.
"Will someone mail me the instruc-
tions? If I'm going to demonstrate it, I
better know how to play it."
Not Pushing Toys
Margaret Truman pushing toys?
Well, not exactly, she says. Through
December, she will be a spokesperson
for the Toy Manufacturers of America,
the trade association for the $5 billion
JOURNEY FOR MARGARET-Touring for Toy Manufacturers of
annual industry.
America is Margaret Truman Daniel, author, actress and mother.
She came to town Sunday night
Times photo by George Rose
with a black sample case stuffed with
toys- "like a traveling salesman," she
the TMA that I learned Raggedy Ann
Then, inexplicably, she's done it
says, "though I'm not selling toys, per
has red hair," she says.
again. Now she's holding a black doll,
se. I'm selling the idea of safe toys that
And while you are learning that she
smoothing its dress and saying, "I
your child will learn from."
usually prevailed upon her senator
lived in the Midwest. I didn't have one
And you better believe that she's
father to pack her toys for the annual
of these."
good at it.
move to Washington, she also is giv-
All this with only a hint of prodding
Truman is not talking about finan-
ing you some charming insights into
from one of the two toy-industry me-
cial arrangements with the toy people
the Truman family:
dia representatives who seem to be as
"That's between me and them." The
motivation, she says, was the chal-
"In those days, the Senate met from
much a part of this arrangement as the
lenge-"It's a whole different sort of
January to June. Then everyone came
black sample case.
home. They seemed to accomplish just
And Truman insists she is no politi-
career."
as much.
cian.
Back to the Subject
"My mother did her packing, but my
Steer the conversation to the book
father packed the linens in two big
"When I was young, I used to think
she's writing, a mystery to be called
cardboard boxes. We weren't that san-
I was going to make the family name,"
"Murder in the White House," and she
guine about being reelected, so we had
says Margaret Truman. "Someone got
steers it ever so deftly back to toys.
a furnished apartment, a different one
ahead of me."
Her reminiscences of Harry S. Tru-
every year until 1940 (when he won a
She was 21, a student at George
man's days as a U.S. senator somehow
second term).
include an aside about her own Rag-
"We even had to take pots and pans.
Washington University, when her
father succeeded to the Presidency in
gedy Ann, which had black yarn hair
We sound like a bunch of itinerants,
because it was going bald and a loving
don't we? It turns out we should have
April, 1945, on the death of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. The Trumans' only
relative made some repairs.
bought a house. It would have been a
"It wasn't until I started to work for
good investment."
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