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WHITE HOUSE DIARY (314 pp.)-Henrietta Nesbitt-Doubleday...
...Pshaw, it's only four years. I can stand anything for four years," said Henrietta Nesbitt when she became housekeeper of the White House in 1933. But Mrs. Nesbitt, who was "pushing 60" when she became "First Housekeeper of the Land," stayed in office, like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive...
...After leading the anti-government forces to victory in Costa Rica's recent civil war, José Figueres became head of the ruling Junta, in effect, the nation's chief executive. His pretty brunette wife is the former Henrietta Boggs of Birmingham...
Died. Princess Henrietta Guerard Pignatelli, sixtyish, Bluffton, S.C. shopkeeper's daughter who became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S. by marrying a grocery fortune (A. & P.'s Edward V. Hartford, who left her $200 million when he died in 1922) and then became a princess by marrying Prince Guido Pignatelli in 1937; after long illness; in Wyckoff...
...When Princess Elizabeth visited the university to receive an honorary doctorate of civil law, the "OUDS" (pronounced OWDS-the Oxford University Dramatic Society) produced a masque in her honor. Oxford had not entertained a royal visitor with this traditional Renaissance theatrical since 1636, when Charles I and his Queen Henrietta Maria paid a call*. In sunlit, flower-decked Radcliffe Quadrangle at University College, Elizabeth was ensconced beneath a blue-&-gold canopy while from a swan-shaped chariot (drawn by redheaded twins) Venus and Neptune delivered their welcoming speeches. Beneath the glassy eyes of movie and television cameras, a fully armored...