Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placing responsibility for the Korean war on the Administration. His appointment also gave the G.O.P. a majority of regular delegates to the Assembly-Lodge, New York's John Foster Dulles and Delegation Chief Warren Austin. Besides Fair Dealer Sparkman, the only other Democrat among the regulars is Eleanor Roosevelt...
Answering a reader who asked if John Roosevelt, 34, president of Lee Pharmacal Co., Inc., isn't a Republican, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in McCall's that he "is one of the members of our family who has no interest whatever in politics ... I notice, however, that [he] . . . has taken considerable interest in his brother James's campaign for the nomination for governor of California ... so he is at least interested in one Democrat...
Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Soprano Eleanor Steber...
...audience one night last week at the Berkshire Festival had a special treat: Eleanor Roosevelt made her musical debut as the narrator in Prokofiev's symphonic fable, Peter and the Wolf. The First Lady emeritus, who had arrived to rehearse only that morning, read her score (solo passages underlined in black ink, lines with orchestral accompaniment in red) with a mellow distinctness, never missed a cue. The audience called her back for five rousing curtain calls. Said Conductor Serge Koussevitzky ecstatically: "Now the First Lady of the world is not only a grandmother to her own grandchildren, but, through...
...first and only great-grandchild was already taking his appointed place in the family circle. Nicholas Delano ("Little Bear") Seagraves-his mother, Anna Eleanor Dall Boettiger ("Sistie") Seagraves, is the eldest child of the Roosevelts' eldest child, Anna-hit his first-year mark, obliged the birdie with what might well become another famous grin...