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...because they had printed an editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...
...afternoon, "Jack" Fuess sliced his way with more than his customary abandon around the country-club golf course, allowed only an occasional dreihunderttausend Donner-wetter to escape his lips. At 62, Fuess thought that he and Andover both needed a change. His old friend Lewis Perry had resigned as principal of nearby Phillips Exeter Academy,* and that had helped decide him. "My generation has done its job. If I stayed here long enough, I'd become...
...Fairyland? Edward Lamb, the smart Toledo lawyer who filed the original case for the pottery workers, did not agree. Neither did C.I.O.'s assistant general counsel, Frank Donner...
Number 14 was Washington's Mayflower, which, although only 21 years old, is already rich with political legend. To get the 1,000-room Mayflower, Connie Hilton paid $2.6 million to Philadelphia's Donner Estates for a controlling bloc (200,000 shares) of the hotel's common stock. With the stock came a sorry financial history. Allen E. Walker, oldtime Washington real-estate man who started to build the Mayflower, lost it in a mortgage deal before he got through putting the basement in. Finally completed at a cost of $13 million by the mortgage-holder, William...
...Harald of Norway; John's Anne, 2, and Haven, 4; Anna's John, 5; James's Kate, 8; Elliott's Chandler, 10. Grandchildren there but not in picture: Anna's Sistie, 17, and Buzzie, 14; James's Sara, 12; Elliott's William Donner, 12; Franklin Jr.'s Franklin III, 6, and Christopher...