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Colonel Roosevelt is the only one of his famed father's four sons now in U.S. service. Brother Kermit is a major in the British Army; Brother Archibald (disabled by wounds in 1918 as a captain in the 26th) is at his bond business in Wall Street; Brother Quentin (the family's only flying officer) in a hero's grave in France. Young T. R.'s son, 21-year-old Harvardman Quentin, goes into service in June as an Army lieutenant...
Felix finds Cambridge little changed in 38 years, except for the "beeldings." His outstanding reminiscence of World War I are the riding boots of Kermit Roosevelt which he used to shine. The prosperity of the twenties carried him right into the presidency of Megalopolis, a society of Boston Greeks. In his cubbyhole sanctum Felix treasures the programs of the charity balls he sponsored. He contributed a full $2,000 to the erection of a high school near his home town, and carefully preserves his cancelled checks as living proof of his munificence...
...have traded with Billings and Stover. Nearly all the big names in Harvard history for the past eighty-five years are recorded in the prescription books, of which there are 112. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a prescription filed once for stomach trouble. All the Roosevelts, too, from the elder Kermit and Teddy on down to our contemporaries, have been regular customers. Mr. Mahoney speaks of Norman Prince, who was the first American to die with the Lafayette Escadrille. And Mr. Justice Frankfurter, though now in Washington, still keeps his account at Billings and Stover. Only a few days...
...great boon to the British at this point was well-meaning but jinx-bearing Major Kermit Roosevelt, who bobbed up in Cairo. The 26th U. S. President's second son joined the British Army in October 1939. The following February he resigned to lead "a modern crusade" to Finland, but the Finnish War ended too soon. Back with the British Army again last spring, promoted from second lieutenant to major, he went to Narvik, was there long enough to be driven out. He planned to go to France, but France collapsed before he got there. Arriving in Egypt...
...dead in Texas, but vaudeville boomed again last week as six 1940 candidates for Governor, including Pappy O'Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...