Word: admirerers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The harsh limelight of publicity beats upon her as fiercely as it ever did during the years of the New Deal. Her vigor has prompted her friend & admirer, Anna Rosenberg, to call her the "jet plane with a fringe on top." But Mrs. Roosevelt has changed during her years alone...
Restless, thrice-divorced son Elliott-who announced last month that he is moving to Cuba with his fourth wife, perhaps to pick up a radio network, now that his father's old admirer, Dictator Fulgencio Batista, has taken over again-is Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite son. She addresses...
By 2 a.m. the news was good and getting fabulously better: not only was Estes Kefauver* beating Harry Truman in the preferential "beauty contest," but he was winning all twelve of the delegates to the Democratic convention. Kefauver had been rated an outside chance to win a single delegate. Whispered...
In London, J. B. Priestley heard that an overenthusiastic admirer, after reading that Priestley "longed for the sun and soil of Arizona," was air-expressing him a shoe box full of the state's soil. Grumbled the novelist: "I would have preferred citrus fruit."
But the "Poet in the Subway" (as a sensational article in the New York World dubbed him) was about to get a lift. A book review helped to do it, mostly because the reviewer was President Theodore Roosevelt. His young son Kermit had sent him the revamped edition of Robinson...