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Truax Wives Entertain
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Three committee chairmen of the Truax Field Officers' Wives club during a tea for wives of a number of prominent Madison residents. They are, left to right, Patricia Harris, Margaret Hoffman, and Mrs. James Ridgell.
December 1, 1960
Stein, Edwin
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