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Eleanor Roosevelt readied the sprawling Roosevelt summer home at Campobello Island, N.B., for 30 college boys and girls who will use the place for six weeks this summer to study discussion-group-leading. They are sponsored by the safe & sound International Student Service, to which she has transferred the affections once lavished on the deep pink American Youth Congress. << Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, riled by rumors of a race-equality move in State education, settled down to weeding out non-Georgian teachers, declared: "I never did think these foreign professors were smarter than our own Georgians." << King Peter...
...established, Halifax is only 369 mi. from Boston, has a Royal Canadian Air Force field at Dartmouth from which land-based aircraft could operate. There are also land-plane fields at Truro, Halifax and Yarmouth, across the Bay of Fundy from Franklin Roosevelt's summer vacation spot at Campobello Island. (North of Halifax is the village of Grand Pré where Britain's ruthless handling in 1755 of a political minority was hexametred by Longfellow in Evangeline...
...Prominently posed with the President for news and newsreel pictures were Franklin D. Jr. & Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, who, with two young friends, were cruising just off Campobello. Gossip columnists took this as renewed notice that the Franklin D. Jrs. are not phphpht as gossiped...
...went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled him. His vacation plan: to cruise off Nova Scotia, try for giant tuna...
...Campobello cottage, Franklin Roosevelt broke his umptieth precedent, and gave a headache to football fans and turkey-growers by moving Thanksgiving Day up this year from November 30 to November...