For the next 90 minutes she kept her eyes fixed on the keyboard while her groomed fingers agilely feather-dusted and trip-hammered through Bach's Goldberg Variations.
The distinguished visitor with the brown, gem-cut face and Oriental costume stepped agilely from the Independence and shook President Truman's hand.
Since he reached the House in a 1941 by-election, he has jumped political party fences as often and agilely as a spring lamb.