Word: franklin
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...FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Sixteen descendants of F.D.R. say their jaunty forebear should be depicted in a wheelchair...
...order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark, probably dooming the juveniles to an early death. The story is a reminder of the thin margins that sustain life, even for creatures as durable as the emperor penguin, which has thrived for millions...
...octogenarian Galbraith has been a professor at Harvard since 1948. He was Ambassador to India during the administration of John F. Kennedy '40, who is a former Crimson editor, and administered the system of wartime price controls during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who is a former Crimson president...
...potential presidential candidate, one of Franklin Roosevelt's children, was born on Campobelo Island, situated just outside the United States' legal boundary. Should he have been prevented from pursuing the Presidency because of his birth on Campobelo? Was there valid cause to doubt his loyalty to the country his father served...
Some truly notable descendants of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury include Ralph Waldo Emerson 1832 and the astronaut Allan Shephard. Notable descendants of John and Judith (Gater) Perkins of Ipswich include Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Max Perkins, Archibald Cox, the Harvard law professor, Lucille Ball, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Perkins and Tennessee Williams. --Martin E. Hollick, reference librarian for the Widener and Lamont libraries