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Scorpion is now 400 dollars in debt, and the figure is bound to go up when the magazine's now editor brings out his first issue is October. It could conceivably be the last. Guy Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kuttner '67 doesn't care about the money, although the loans are in his name, but he does enjoy caring about his magazine. "Look, I'm a Boy Editor," he'll say, gleefully posing with a telephone receiver. "I'm throwing paper clips at a dinosaur...
LUCY PAGE MERCER RUTHERFURD, "a sweet, womanly person" whose relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is called "one of the great love stories of American history." See THE NATION...
When State Senator Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved from Albany to Washington in 1913 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he took up residence with his wife and young children in a comfortable rented house on N Street in Georgetown. After a few months, 30-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt, even then a woman of wide and active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy...
...Daniels points out in his book, there were other factors mitigating against a Roosevelt breakup, including F.D.R.'s "political ambition plus the mores of the sort of Wharton world in which he was born." Furthermore, Mama seemed to be onto the romance and, says Daniels, Sara Delano Roosevelt "evidently saw threat to the standards of her family and society." In a letter to her son, she defended "the old-fashioned traditions of family life" and expressed the hope that F.D.R. would realize "that I am not so far wrong...
Long gone are the days when the Radio Priest called Franklin Delano Roosevelt "the great liar and betrayer," when he joined with Huey Long's third-party movement and loudly boomed his weekly antiwar message across the country from Detroit's Station WJR. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Father Charles Coughlin, 74, silenced by Edward Cardinal Mooney in 1940 at F.D.R.'s behest, held a press conference at his rectory in Royal Oak, Mich., and allowed: "I understand more about charity than I did 40 years...