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...Greeted 53,258 Washingtonians, including some damp, tear-streaked children, at the annual Easter egg-rolling lawn party, where the usual percentage still held: 1 to 1.3 mothers to each child...
...Attended with Mrs. Roosevelt Easter church services day after her trip to Dedham, Mass, to see her niece-namesake, Eleanor Roosevelt, married to a young British architect, Edward P. Elliott. Sunday evening, Mrs. Roosevelt boarded a plane for Los Angeles to see her eldest son, Captain James Roosevelt, marry Miss Romelle Schneider, Mayo Clinic nurse...
...week had grown so used to chanting, "The line is busy," that they frequently sang it out before callers got a chance to say a word. The capital's swamped switchboards were an indication of what was inundating Washington: a flood of people and business. Last week, with Easter holidays, the Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Daughters of the American Revolution rustling into Washington for their annual counterrevolution, the flood burst all bounds...
...Catholic Eire, Easter time is a historical as well as a religious holiday. On Good Friday, 1014, King Brian Boru lost his life smashing the Vikings, who for two centuries had raided Ireland. On Easter Monday, 1916 (one day behind schedule) began the brief, bitter, bloody rising that was the first skirmish in the rebellion that led to the Irish Free State...
...good-looking men here at Yale," said one of the feminine members of the West Orange, N.J. High Youth Hostelers. "I'll say, the cream of the crop," answered another. Led by a member of the German Department the Hostelers are bicycling their way through New England during the Easter Vacation.... "Gosh, did Franklin Roosevelt go to school here?". When politely, but firmly, told that FDR went to Harvard and that Harvard had no buildings comparable to Freshman Commons, the signed whisper came back, "But they have the reputation." -Yale News, April...