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...learned how to dance. "I made up my mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon a Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street. He took Abby to college dances and football games, out on tandem rides and canoeing trips down Ten Mile River. ("She was so gay and young and so in love with everything.") Week by week...
...problems of his time. Across the U.S. a tornado was roaring up against the robber barons, concentrating hardest and legitimately against the father, whipping fitfully at the son in cruel, sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual matters are a tax on piety." From the pulpit of St. Bartholomew...
Soloists for the concert are Jean Lunn '55, Sara-Jane Smith '55, Antonio Giarraputo '50, Jean Comstock, and Dr. Putnam Aldrich, harpsichordist...
...from the chorus. The group's TV appearance last year brought requests for a repeat telecast. Station WGBH-TV will televise these vocalists on July 30. An additional concert with full-chorus and accompanist has been planned for the Monday evening of August 13, in Sanders Theatre. Dr. Putney Aldrich will join the group in this concert with his harpsichord...
...though, the 1956 Boston Arts Festival tallies up as the finest so far, and for this much of the credit must go to general chairman Nelson W. Aldrich '34 and Festival director Peter Temple...