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...overwhelming reception in Mexico, pleased that things had really gone right with his Trade bill-as indeed they should have-he planned for himself a purposely low-keyed, easy-paced week. Grinning broadly, he set the week's quiet tone by receiving a distinguished visitor, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, who came to the White House to witness the unveiling of a new white marble mantel for its State Dining Room, to take the place of the mantel installed by Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 and removed when the White House was restored...
...other. By the same resolution, two nearby House office buildings will now be known after a couple of Mister Sam's Republican predecessors-one, built in 1908, for iron-willed Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, who reigned from 1903 to 1911, the other, finished in 1933, for Nicholas Longworth...
...Nicholas Longworth, a Cincinnati Republican, married "Princess Alice" Roosevelt, Teddy's daughter. He was an elegant, scrupulously fair presiding officer, and a skilled parliamentarian who won friends on both sides of the aisle and prestige for the House through his assumption that all Representatives were as honorable and gentlemanly as himself. With his bipartisan "Big Five," he set the pace for the famed "Board of Education," an informal gathering where the leaders of both parties could get together after each day's session for drinking and legislative planning...
...Thomas J. Watson Jr.,* and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who solved the Met's union contract impasse (TIME, Sept. 8). The grandes dames were out in force-Rose Kennedy, the President's mother; the Castoria heiress Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the indomitable Alice Roosevelt Longworth-along with such assorted guests from other fields as Pundit Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party was in honor of Governor Luis Muňoz Marin and his wife, there...
...aged master, the critics and music lovers agreed that Casals had never made better music, and that his octogenarian bow arm was as firm as ever. At concert's end, the audience arose in a standing ovation. The President gave Casals an abrazo and summoned Alice Longworth to the front of the room for a bow. She had heard the great cellist in his last White House performance, 57 years before, when he played for her President father Theodore Roosevelt...