Word: nahant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Sally Poor Clark, 18, nightclub singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25; in Nahant, Mass...
...Once more Father Roosevelt was off to one of those family ceremonies which Roosevelts love. This time the event was Johnny's Day, the wedding-perhaps the last among Franklin Roosevelt's lively brood- of his youngest, John Aspinwall Roosevelt, 22, to Anne Lindsay Clark, 21, at Nahant, Mass...
...Salem, he went down to a scrubbed-up coal wharf at which his yacht Potomac had tied up. There, Anne and her pretty 18-year-old sister Sally went aboard with John to pose for more photographs. Father Roosevelt had the ship anchor for the day off the Nahant peninsula. That evening the wedding party dined aboard, later went ashore for more gaiety than the Presidential yacht could offer...
...wedding day was the biggest that sleepy Nahant has known since Roosevelt I paused there in 1902 to visit Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's grandfather. Anne's Boston background is thoroughly Republican (though not so dramatically Tory as Ethel du Font's) but many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars...
...Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother James Roosevelt's eye, winked. At the church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like an old-timer (see cut). The guests trooped after, to the Nahant Tennis Club. They consumed 500 bottles of imported champagne, and food which Secret Service in the kitchen had made sure was not poisoned. A popular morsel of their gossip was about Mrs. Franklin Jr. (Ethel du Pont) who is expecting a baby...