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...absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer; Son Franklin Jr., lying in a Boston hospital with streptococcus and sinus trouble; Franklin Jr.'s fiancee Ethel du Pont, and one grandchild. William Donner Roosevelt, son of Elliott's first wife. But all the rest of the family were present, including Son Elliott's five-month-old Elliott Jr. and Son James's captivating Kate, ten months...
...Oilman Henry Latham Doherty announced the President's annual birthday balls (poliomyelitis benefits) for Jan. 30. William Donner Roosevelt, 4, only one of the President's seven grandchildren not to spend Christmas at the White House, emptied his coin bank in Philadelphia and bought the first five tickets...
ORDEAL BY HUNGER - George R. Stewart Jr.-Holt ($2.75). The grisly true story of the Donner Party, who went overland to California in 1846, took an unfortunate "short-cut," were trapped by winter in the Sierras. Some of them kept going by turning cannibal. Forty-six of the 87 got through alive. With illustrations and maps...
...Meanwhile in Manhattan what again seemed to Germans "occult forces" caused a number of Communists to sneak aboard the S. S. Bremen as that German liner was about to sail with such distinguished passengers as President Roosevelt's toddling grandson William Donner Roosevelt. Six daring Reds proceeded to tear down and throw into the Hudson River the Bremen...
...White House newshawks the President last week gave a gay dance at which his Daughter Anna and his new ex-newshawk Son-in-Law John Boettiger, his ex-Daughter-in-Law Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt and his Son James were present...