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Confirmed by White House
Lower than a
White House officials confirmed
that Mr. Truman had written to
Guttersnipe
Hume, and one source said the
published version sounded like
Washington, Dec. (P)-Presi-
what the President wrote.
dent Truman has threa ened in a
Hume said the published version
blistering letter
was almost word for word with
to beat up, from
the letter he received, except that
top to bottom, a
it left out a couple of paragrafs.
music critic who
There were hints the omitted por-
said daughter
tion contained language at least
Margaret's voice
equally strong.
was flat.
The
Hume, 34, declined to make the
on White House
text public. He said in a state-
stationery, in the
ment: I can only say that a man
President's o W n
suffering the loss of a close friend
and carrying the terrible burden
handwriting and
Hume
of the pres at world crisis ought
signed H. S. T.-went out Wednes-
to be indulged in an occasional
day to Paul Hume, critic for the
outburst of ten
Washington Post, who had criti-
cized Miss Truman's concert in
Margaret Upholds Critic
Constitution hall the night before.
The reference was to Charles G,
Ross, Mr. Truman's secretary and
Here's Unofficial Version
friend, who died a few hours be-
This unofficial version of the
fore Miss Truman's concert.
President's letter was published
Miss Truman arrived by train
today in the Washington Daily
late today in Nashville, Tenn., to
News:
give a concert tonight. She held
I have just read your lousy re-
a news conference and when a re-
view buried in the back pages. You
porter showed her a newspaper
sound like a frustrated old man
giving an account of the letter,
who never made a success, an
Miss Truman expressed doubt that
eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer
the President had written it.
job, and all four ulcers working.
Hume, she told reporters, is a fine
I never met you, but if I do
critic and " lias a perfect right to
you'll need a new nose and plenty
say whatever he thinks."
of beefsteak and pernaps a sup-
Hume said in his review of the
porter below.
[Continued on page 6, column 1]
Westbrook Pegler, a gutter-
snipe, is a gentleman compared 10
you. You can take that as more of
an insult than as a reflection on
your ancestry."
[Webster's New International
Dictionary defines a guttersnipe
as, " A person of the gutter, as a
ragpicker or a street Arab."]
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