Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stationery of the Harvard Crimson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to his mother: "I know what pain I must have caused you and you know I wouldn't do it if I really could have helped it-mais tu sais, me voilà! That's all that could be said. I know my mind, have known it for a long time, and know that I would never think otherwise. Result: I am the happiest man just now in the world; likewise the luckiest. And for you, dear Mummy, you know that nothing can ever change what we have always...
This and almost every other letter which her only child ever wrote her was carefully preserved by Sara Delano Roosevelt. Last week a doting mother's souvenirs became a historian's treasure. LIFE published a selection of F.D.R.'s letters as a boy and young...
...alive. Leo G. Carroll succeeds in the difficult task of keeping a bitter and disillusioned old man sympathetic even when he tries to destroy the love of two young people. But the most spectacular playing last night was done by Ethel Griffies, in the role of the professor's mother. The part has little relation to the story, but the comedy of this ancient hypochondriac is almost worth the price of orchestra seats. The other actors fill in smoothly, except perhaps for the one playing the young girl in love, whose stylized cuteness is like nothing seen off the stage...
...still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep the Home Fires Burning...
...president lives with his wife, his mother and a fidgety Irish setter, in a twelve-room stone mansion overlooking the Berkeley campus. They do a lot of entertaining (a September house guest: Harvard's President James Bryant Conant), have occasionally fed a whole varsity team. All three of the Sproul children, two sons and a daughter, are Cal grads. So is sobersided brother Allan, who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...