The suit cost Harry $65, and his best man let him have it on credit, since Truman had spent quite a bit on a wedding ring, purchased in New York on his way home from Europe. The reception was at Bess’s home, and if there was one awkward element, it was the mothers. Bess’s mother, Mrs. Wallace, had never been fond of the “farm boy” from Grandview. As for Mamma Truman, she was escorted from the affair at the end by best man Ted Marks. “Well, now, Mrs. Truman,” Marks said, “you’ve lost Harry.” She looked at him with fierce blue eyes (“I can see her face to this day,” Marks remarked decades
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