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Family & Early Years: Born at Oyster Bay, N.Y. near Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill estate, and reared in Republicanism. His father, Franklyn H. Hall, was Roosevelt's coachman and rose to be White House librarian. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt suggested to Hall's parents that they name their son for her husband's friend and old commanding officer, General Leonard Wood...
Died. The Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, 74, tempestuous pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fort Worth (and, until 1951, of the Temple Baptist Church in Detroit as well); of a heart attack, at a Fundamentalist camp meeting; in Keystone Heights, Fla. In 1912, when the old First Baptist in Fort Worth burned down, Pastor Norris was indicted for arson. When he produced threatening letters to prove it was the work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion...
Elderly Hollywood breathed a little easier. By court order, the torch had been put to Actress Mary Astor's famed "Purple Diary," introduced by her then husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe in his 1936 suit for custody of their daughter Marylyn. Though the two-volume record of Actress Astor's amorous adventures was never officially admitted into the court records, enough of it leaked out to give Hollywood some apprehensive moments. It named Hollywood's six "greatest lovers," and included a lurid description of the manly appeal of Playwright George S. (Of Thee I Sing) Kaufman ("thrilling ecstacy...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 58, asbestosexed playboy; and platinum blonde Anita Frances Roddy-Eden, 29, dancer and songwriter; in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was her first; she was his ninth. For a few tense seconds, Manville mistook his fianćee's twin sister and matron of honor, Mrs. Juanita Roddy-Eden Patifio, for the bride, but recovered quickly, lit a cigarette and got married (by the mayor of New Rochelle) to the right girl...
...FRANKLYN E. DOAN...