Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Harry S Truman died on Dec. 26, 1972, at 88. The next day, Jake McCarthy, a news columnist for the Post-Dispatch, wrote this ...

Perle Mesta was one of DC’s most famous socialites, a newspaper staple known for her charm and influence—“the hostess with the mostest,” as she was famously dubbed. Her hot-ticket parties were ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

Perle Mesta and President Harry S. Truman chat at a reception in Washington ... Meryl Gordon’s sympathetic and involving new biography, “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” rescues Mesta from ...

KMBC NINE’S MATT EVANS IS TAKING A LOOK AT A VISIT TO THE TRUMAN LIBRARY, AND WHY CARTER ADMIRED HARRY TRUMAN SO MUCH. REPORTER. SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1980. THE FINAL TIME PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER ...

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On Monday, Joe Biden will no longer be president. After five decades in elective office, Biden will go home, unappreciated ...

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.