Word: eleanor
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Private Trial. After Yalta, Roosevelt failed rapidly. His one solace in early 1945 was the willowy and gracious Lucy Rutherfurd, then 52, whom he had loved since World War I, when she was social secretary to his wife Eleanor. In 1918, Eleanor had found a packet of scented love letters to her husband from Lucy. Screaming shrilly, according to Bishop, Eleanor confronted F.D.R. in his bedroom while their son Elliott, then seven years old, cowered near by. "Please, Babs, please," Roosevelt begged. "The dinner guests are downstairs...
When Roosevelt promised to give up Lucy, Eleanor agreed to keep living with him but never again to share his bed. This was no hardship for Eleanor, Bishop reports. She once told her daughter Anna, "Sex, my dear, is a thing a woman must learn to endure...
Life with Eleanor became a private trial for F.D.R. Siding with Roosevelt, Bishop calls Eleanor "a harpy" and takes a sympathetic view of the fact that the President never fully broke off his relationship with Lucy, not even when, in 1920, she married a wealthy Manhattan socialite named Winthrop Rutherfurd. Hidden in a private Secret Service car, Lucy attended all four of Roosevelt's Inaugurations. He phoned her constantly, speaking in French if a member of his staff was in the room. They often met secretly in Washington's Rock Creek Park. Lucy would climb into the back...
Secretive Years. During all these secretive years, Eleanor never learned of her husband's enduring romance...
...Beatles became, well, acceptable. "They weren't greasy like the motorcycle bunch of the '50 s," says one fan, "and they weren't slick like Bowie or Alice Cooper are now. The Beatles were nice--you could've brought one home to your parents." Today, orchestrations of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" are pumped into supermarkets. One girl even caught her "mother bopping around to Beatle songs...