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...smile could raise welts, and her dinner-table conversation regularly drew blood, some as blue as her own. She dismissed her cousin Franklin Roosevelt as "two-thirds mush and one-third Eleanor." When Columnist Joseph Alsop, another cousin, attributed grass-roots support to Wendell Willkie, the Republican hope to topple F.D.R. in 1940, she said yes, "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs." It was she who demolished Thomas E. Dewey, the 1944 G.O.P. candidate, with the gibe that "he looks like the little man on the wedding cake...
...life." The black opera star Marian Anderson broke the color line by singing in the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall. But for Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, there was no such thing as race relations: "He repeatedly introduced a bill to deport all Negroes to Africa and once suggested that Eleanor Roosevelt be sent with them and made their 'queen...
...little more out of it. I was tired the last 100 meters, but I think I got it on guts." She was exultant after crossing the finish, however, her arms held skyward and tears streaming down her face, hurrying to embrace Boyfriend and Teammate Dave Silk. For Mother Eleanor and Father Charlie, their two sons and three other daughters, it was the culmination of lifetimes spent on skates, first in Cornwall, N.Y., where Bonnie was born, then in Champaign, Ill., where the family moved when the future Olympic champion was two. The story is often told that Charlie Blair received...
...Eleanor H. Yoon '90 witnessed a similarincident in her Introduction to Psychology class,where Assistant Dean of the Extension School DodgeL. Fernald delivered a giant chocolate kiss to onetickled student...
...Oscar nomination in 1949 for her original story for the gentle comedy Come to the Stable, about two nuns setting up a hospital for children; and, in 1952, making 47 separate radio and TV appearances on behalf of Dwight Eisenhower. A 1953 Gallup poll showed that she was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II and Mamie Eisenhower, the most admired woman in the world...