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...more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he contends, his mother had no sex with F.D.R. after 1916. Lash's book had recounted F.D.R.'s long-running affair with Eleanor's special secretary Lucy Page Mercer. Elliott Roosevelt now claims that his father had a hitherto unknown affair with another secretary, Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, during his marriage. Elliott's siblings-James, Franklin Jr., John and Anna Roosevelt Halsted-have signed a joint statement dissociating themselves from the book...
...satisfied. Addressing Director Losey, Jane declared solemnly: "We have serious objections to the script." These came mainly in the form of voluminous notes, written largely by Nancy. They demanded no fewer than 70 pages of changes in the 104-page script. As a result, Losey nearly lost Screenwriter David Mercer, who, according to one member of the company, was "utterly humiliated" by the ordeal...
...have it sink again, but he is still an alternative for those weary of Johnny Carson. Although some nights of the comedy week were mind-numbing in their amateurishness, others, like those given over to a humorous look at the news, with such performers as Mort Sahl and Marian Mercer, were as funny as the early Laugh...
Though A T & T has not declared whether the Name Caller can really interfere with its circuits, a subsidiary, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., sent letters to eleven stores asserting that they were violating phone-use rules by improperly advertising the device. Last month Mercer filed suit in federal district court in Los Angeles, charging that A T & T, General Telephone & Electronics Corp. and 41 of their subsidiaries violated antitrust laws by attempting to use Federal Communications Commission regulations to force the Name Caller off the market. The suit also contends that the telephone companies threatened to suspend the phone service...