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Your account of Roosevelt II lunching with Admiral-Squire-Doctor-Socialite Gary Travers Grayson, U. S. N., retired, newly appointed head of the American Red Cross (TIME, Feb. 18) recalls a breakfast with Roosevelt I in the White House years ago when Dr. Grayson and two other men were guests of President Theodore...
...President asked Grayson what his college was. He said, "The University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee." Turning to his aide, Archie Butt, the President said, "Why, that is your college, too," and Major Butt nodded assent. Then turning to his third guest, the Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas, without whom the Panama Canal could not have been built, "And where were you educated, Gorgas?" the President asked. "Sewanee, sir," came the General's answer...
...Rexford Guy Tugwell. There also was a man with some reputation in business circles, the president of American Car & Foundry Co., Mr. William Woodin. One adviser whom the public might have recognized was Diplomat Norman Hezekiah Davis. The other member of the party was Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, U. S. N., retired...
...Admiral Grayson who had won his rank by sedulously tending Woodrow Wilson's health, had ceased to be an Admiral and gone back to his native Virginia to become a well-to-do squire and breeder of race horses. The reason he rode with the President-elect on that occasion was that Franklin Roosevelt knew of no one else who could manage his inaugural with better social grace and tact...
...years passed and Franklin Roosevelt might never again have thought of asking the Admiral-Squire-Doctor-Socialite to take another job, but last week he had to pick a successor to the late John Barton Payne as head of the American Red Cross. Again the name of Admiral Grayson occurred to him. The President signed. The Admiral exclaimed: "It is a great honor. ... I want to serve humanity. . . ." And Franklin Roosevelt was pleased because he occasionally enjoys bestowing an accolade on the old Wilsonians of whom he once...