Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beverly Farms home in Massachusetts, Lucy's daughter and only child, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles, revealed that her mother and father, Socialite Winthrop Rutherfurd, were wed in 1920 in a simple Roman Catholic ceremony in a private home, the unusual location being permitted because one of Widower Rutherfurd's five chil dren by his previous marriage had recently died. Lucy, her daughter said, was a devout Catholic, a fact that, together with F.D.R.'s political ambitions, is said to have kept her and F.D.R. from marrying. After Lucy's marriage, Mrs. Knowles added, she and F.D.R...
...then, writes Daniels, "supposedly he ended forever his relations with Lucy Mercer." In 1920, five months before Roosevelt became the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President, Lucy Mercer was wed to a man 30 years her senior, Winthrop Rutherfurd, a New York society figure whose first wife-a daughter of former Vice President Levi Morton-had died in 1917 after bearing him five children. Lucy bore him one daughter...
...Rutherfurd died in a New York City hospital in 1948, in her 58th year. Last week her daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles of Aiken, called Daniels' disclosures "quite a surprise to me." It was quite a surprise to a lot of people, and more details are bound to come out in the future. Daniels, for one, who called the liaison "nothing shameful" and "the beautiful affair of a great lady and a gentleman," intimated that he is considering following up his coup with a full-length account of "one of the great love stories of American history...
...retired railroad electrician, says almost proudly: "I'm not buying now because I want buying power for when the time comes. I've had some tremendous profits over the years. I've had some losses. Nobody has plusses all the time." And in Boston, Housewife Cici Philbin, 25, the daughter of a stockbroker, senses opportunity in the slide. Says she: "It's a good time to pick...
...plays golf in the low 80s, has certificates to prove that he has thrice scored holes in one. His two children, both grown and married, remain close to the marketing place. Son Donald, 34, an Amherst graduate, is a registered representative in a Merrill Lynch New York branch office. Daughter Joan, 30, is married to a Merrill Lynch junior executive, soon to be transferred to Detroit to the same job his father-in-law held some 30 years ago. Thomson has five grandchildren; and in preparation for visits from the older ones, he maintains in his Westfield home a slot...