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...major treasure trove was the still-unpublished diary of Wilson's doctor, Admiral Gary Grayson, which contained many a clinical detail that Grayson had discreetly left out of his own book about Wilson, published in 1960. Though his history sometimes reads like soap opera, Smith is a conscientious researcher, as Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges in an admiring introduction. Biographer Smith demonstrates that Edith Wilson was much more powerful than anyone has suspected, and her husband much more incapacitated...
Only Wilson's private secretary, Joe Tumulty, his doctor, Admiral Cary Grayson, and Edith knew his true condition. For five months Wilson lay flat on his back. His wife had to read to him. If a document needed his signature, his wife guided his trembling hand. His face was set in a senseless smile. At times, he would cry inconsolably. In contrast to the almost embarrassingly candid reports on Eisenhower's physical condition, Wilson's entourage of doctors constantly issued bland, reassuring medical bulletins...
...after Wilson had returned to Washington, Secretary of State Robert Lansing went to the White House with a copy of the U.S. Constitution, pointedly read the article on the presidential succession and urged Tumulty and Grayson to declare the President disabled. Red with rage, Tumulty snapped: "He has been too kind, too loyal and wonderful to me to receive such treatment at my hands." Tumulty and Grayson warned Lansing that if anyone tried to remove the President, they would fight him tooth and nail...
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Kiss Me Kate, starring Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel. Color...
President Grayson Kirk approved the UDC proposal in a letter to the undergraduates, but said that Columbia students would have to prove their responsibility and maturity by refraining from riots and panty raids in the future. Panty raids have often been the only way for Columbia boys to meet students from Barnard College, a girls school across the street on Broadway and 116th...