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...offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary William McAdoo in a simple ceremony. Mrs. Abell's nuptial production will more closely resemble the 1906 spectacular in which "Princess Alice" Roosevelt, Republican Teddy's daughter, wed Ohio Congressman Nicholas Longworth...
There was no rough work in the memorial. The statue, standing in front of a granite tablet in an oval plaza, even won praise from a particularly demanding critic. "I like it enormously," said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 83, Teddy's daughter. "I think I have a rather mean disposition, but I can find nothing critical to say about it." Because the 88-acre island is out of the way compared with most tourist attractions, the memorial probably will not lure crowds of visitors-which will be just fine with the bird watchers and woods lovers who frequent...
...city's experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Hostess Gwen Cafritz purrs modestly: "With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save Western civilization." And Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had her motto for a lively party embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here...
Slow-Motion Passes. For himself, Capote had selected a 39? domino mask from F.A.O. Schwarz; it was bested for economy by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 82-year-old daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She had shopped around and got a similar mask for 4? less. But few of the other ladies tried to pare expenses; some spent $600 and more for their extravaganzas. Rose Kennedy picked out several masks in case she changed her mind, finally settled on an elaborate domino with towering egret plumes. Mrs. Henry Ford II came wearing a white organdy butterfly...
...course, almost everyone wanted to kiss the bride. Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, on crutches, received the most benign of greetings from the President as he came through the line, got his second kiss of the day from Luci. Cooed Luci: "Oh, I could do that all afternoon." Alice Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, whose own dazzling wedding set a White House mark in 1906, was asked to stop and pose between Pat and Luci, the only one so honored...