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Died. Paulina Longworth Sturm, 31, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, much-publicized onetime Valentine Day baby of Speaker of the House (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth and T.R.'s daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth; apparently after an overdose of sleeping pills, five years after the death of her husband. Author-Artist Alexander McCormick Sturm; in Washington...
Poor Prophets. Ike's decision made some newsmen seem poor prophets. Notable example: U.P.'s Merriman Smith, who had staunchly insisted in stories that Ike would not run. A week after Ike's heart attack Columnist Joseph Alsop bet Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth what he warily described as "a substantial sum" that the President would not run again. He gave her 100-to-1 odds. "Then things looked better," said Alice Longworth, "and Joe tried to buy the bet back. Well, he couldn't do that, so he got me to reduce...
Mirroring the ancestral profile, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 60, posed proudly for a picture with a bust of her father, Theodore Roosevelt, after its formal unveiling at the Hall of Fame on the greening campus of New York University...
When Theodore Roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to Nicholas Longworth, he confided boastfully to a perplexed Kaiser Wilhelm that he and Nick had both belonged to the Porc. At that time, Roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son-in-law. Boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E...
...proper disposition of Mr. Gann was also moot. Asked whether he must be invited to all the functions which Dolly attended, Alice Longworth reportedly said: "Mr. Gann's place is in the home." After Dolly's victory, Nebraska's late Senator George Norris, friend of the underprivileged, said: "I had the impression all along that Mrs. Gann would get what she wanted. Mr. Gann, however, is left wholly unprovided for-which is exactly as I feared. I refuse to abandon him in this crisis. I do not intend to let this matter rest until I am assured...