Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, Billy began to "get organized for luxury." He was divorced by Fanny ("Our marriage had been thinning out for several years anyway"), and he married Aquabelle Eleanor Holm. He bought his five-story town house and later picked up two "storybook" estates 40 miles north of Manhattan. (One of them he plans to use as a shelter for displaced European children...
Since demobilization SDA's bid to fill the vacuum left by the war years has outstripped opponents for two chief reasons: through the organizational help of ADA it gains a relatively solid basis which rivals lack and through the adult leadership of ADA big-names (FDR, Jr., Wyatt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tom Stokes) it holds out political symbols which Ioom attractive in a leaderless hour to youth of left-center inclination. Furthermore SDA, like ADA, clearly stated at the outset that unlike other organizations' which had fallen into negativist internal battling against men primarily loyal to the Communist Party Line...
...voice from across the border did complain. The objection came from strait-laced Avery Brundage, president of the U.S. Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this was different: why should he run to fellow members of the International Olympic Committee with grievances that did not concern his own team? (He also complained that Barbara Ann had accepted jewelry...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt's week had its heart-warming aspects. In New York, her driving license was reinstated 15 weeks after she lost it for that three-way traffic smashup last summer...
...earnings the Boettigers had bought newsless shopping papers in both Seattle and Phoenix, set out to convert the Arizona paper into a daily. They stepped it up to two issues a week, then three, then six; they built a news staff, took on columns (by Walter Lippmann, Hedda Hopper, Eleanor Roosevelt and daughter Anna...