Pearl Mesta was Washington's best-known political
Pearl Mesta was Washington's best-known political hostess in the 1940s and 1950s. Ca. 1962. Her influence peaked during the Truman administration and continued in the Eisenhower years. She was portrayed by Ethel Merman in the 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical comedy and 1953 film, CALL ME MADAME. (CSU_2015_11_1641)
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