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...Yesterday Curtis B. Dall, son-in-law of President Roosevelt, shot himself in the White House in the presence of his estranged wife and Mrs. Roosevelt. He died later...
SCAMPER: The Bunny Who Went to the White House-Anna Roosevelt Dall- Macmillan ($2). Babs and Dave booed a Presidential conference into silence to introduce to Grandfather a red-painted, white-coated, blue-collared rabbit named Scamper. "Welcome to the White House," said Grandfather. Scamper followed the children to Grandfather's lap, flopped his ears, ignored the conferring statesmen. That afternoon Babs and Dave took Scamper on a tour of Washington, laughed when he was unable to identify as the Treasury the building in which "dollars and quarters grow." Taken on Grandfather's yacht to Mount Vernon...
Last week Washington was having its worst measles epidemic since 1921. In the White House, Granddaughter Eleanor Dall was almost over her attack but 555 other Washington children were put to bed with runny noses, watery eyes, coughs and fever. That was more than had had measles...
...Last week "Lizzie" McDuffy, black White House maid, was faced by a demand from the presidential grandchildren. Said "Sistie" Dall, "Duffy, why can't something be done so that I may be called Eleanor?" Cried her young brother "Buzzie": "I want to be called Curtis...
From a house on Manhattan's East 49th Street last week went news which joined Abby Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...