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First-day buyers got a neatly laid-out paper, a weak line of comics, Columnists Billy Rose and Tom Stokes, Edith Gwynn on Hollywood, a sport column by the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith-and no news to speak...
Last week, at 87, death came to Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, a great lady...
...Died Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 87 widow of the 26th President of the U.S.; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...much that he was very rich but that he never so much as recognized such enfeebling concepts as self-doubt and humility. He had well-founded doubts, however, of his children's self-reliance. "It is dangerous for you," he often informed Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith, "to lose touch with me for a single day." Like many Victorians, he invested his maddest behavior with an aura of impeccable sanity...
...children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn tennis...