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...From Cambridge Harvardman Roosevelt rushed back to Washington instead of to Hyde Park because Mrs. Roosevelt, for the first time since March 4, 1933, was sick abed, with a bad cold...
...Class of 1911, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Class of 1904 gets many a brickbat. Seventy-five percent declare they will vote for Alf M. Landon this year. As a loyal alumnus, Author Tunis finds that fact painful. "Whence," he asks, "this strange, almost fanatical hatred of a fellow Harvardman...
Nevertheless, said Harvardman Lewis Gannett, Class of 1913 and book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune: "A rough check of my own class disclosed a surprisingly close parallel. . . . Can it be that the rise of the father, in American life, tends to mean the decline...
...Cracked Harvardman Stuart Chase, Class of 1910: "Most of them ask nothing better than a return to the good old days. . . . One is tempted to ask why we should not settle down to the football of our forefathers, with goal posts on the zero yard line, five yards for a first down, and no forward passes...
...Harvardman "Billy" Phillips, scion of a wealthy New England family, entered the U. S. diplomatic service as private secretary to the venerable Joseph H. Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. By reason of tact and independent means. Careerist Phillips became successively First Secretary of the Embassy in London, Minister to The Netherlands (1920). Ambassador to Belgium (1924), first U. S. Minister to Canada...