Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nesbitt is truly kind to all of us," commented Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt as she reviewed her ex-housekeeper's White House Diary (TIME, Aug. 2). "It is true she didn't always like all of our friends and some of the visitors seem to have been a real trial, but so far as my husband and myself and the children are concerned she was certainly a very charitable and generous friend . . . I always got on well with Mrs. Nesbitt. My husband became difficult about his food in the last few years . . . The greatest sacrifice which Mrs. Nesbitt made...
Asked about some of the people in the news you would like to meet, you put Secretary Marshall and Joseph Stalin at the head of the list, say you would rather meet Douglas MacArthur than John L. Lewis, Bob Hope than Walter Winchell, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek than either Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Truman...
Left by Washington's Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson: to seven newsmen, her newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald (see PRESS) ; to her daughter, Countess Felicia Gizycka, virtually all her personal belongings, an estate on Long Island, an estate in North Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate...
...publisher, Eleanor Medill Patterson knew how to employ the carrot as well as the stick. In benign moments she used to tell top hands on her Washington Times-Herald that when she died, the paper would go to them. Last week, in her will, she made good on her promise. The Times-Herald, valued at around $7,000,000, was left to seven faithful executives. Overnight each of the seven became a millionaire. Her estate will even pay the inheritance taxes. The lucky seven: ¶ Editor-in-Chief Frank C. Waldrop, 42, who never crossed the boss, became an executor...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week paid his last respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints...