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LUCY PAGE MERCER RUTHERFURD, "a sweet, womanly person" whose relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is called "one of the great love stories of American history." See THE NATION...
...woman of wide and active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy Page Mercer, 22, the daughter of a socially impeccable Maryland family that had lately fallen on hard times. To Roosevelt, then 31, Lucy Mercer became far more than a mere employee. In fact, says a World War II aide of the late President, F.D.R. and Lucy began a romance that...
After Daniels' book appeared last week, a close friend of Lucy Mercer's, Mrs. Eulalie Salley, 82, declaring that "to hint that there was anything scandalous in their relationship is perfectly ridiculous," said: "Of course he was in love with her. So was every man who knew Lucy." Mrs. Salley believes nonetheless that Roosevelt would have divorced Eleanor to marry Lucy, "but Lucy was a staunch Catholic and would never have married a divorced man." As Daniels points out in his book, there were other factors mitigating against a Roosevelt breakup, including F.D.R.'s "political ambition plus...
...Mercer School's bright students (average IQ is 118) jam the tiny film center after school to view films on their own. They have also been permitted to take projectors and films home on weekends, leading entire families-even neighborhoods-to turn off Gunsmoke and watch movies on the operation of jet aircraft, modern life of Eskimos, human anatomy, basic principles of electricity. Despite all the accent on viewing, students are not bored when they turn to books. The films arouse the children's interests, say the teachers, and broaden their vocabulary. Circulation in the school...
Morgan! This wildly offbeat black comedy from Britain, adapted by Scenarist David Mercer from his own BBC television play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie...