Word: nesbitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHITE HOUSE DIARY (314 pp.)-Henrietta Nesbitt-Doubleday...
...Pshaw, it's only four years. I can stand anything for four years," said Henrietta Nesbitt when she became housekeeper of the White House in 1933. But Mrs. Nesbitt, who was "pushing 60" when she became "First Housekeeper of the Land," stayed in office, like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive...
...just Hyde Park friends of the Roosevelts, come down to look after them," Husband ("Dad") Nesbitt blandly told the world. (Mrs. Nesbitt had often baked and cooked on big occasions when F.D.R. was governor of New York.) Mrs. Roosevelt was waiting in the Red Room when the Nesbitts arrived, and she said: "I'll show you over"; and so "we started out together at a trot, the way she always goes about things . . . We kept on bumping into Roosevelts ... I can't recall how many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen...
Wilcox (H) defeated O'Donnell (M.I.T.); Orr (H) defeated Nesbitt (M.I.T.); O'Donnell and Nesbitt (M.I.T.) defeated Orr and Wilcox (H); Lutman (M.I.T.) defeated Keiver (H); Gordon (H) defeated Toshiajian (M.I.T.); Lutman and Toshiajian (M.I.T.) defeated Keiver and Gordon (H); Kinnicutt (H) defeated Bommor (M.I.T.); Savidge (H) defeated Hoyt (M.I.T.); Kinnicutt and Savidge (H) defeated Bommer and Hoyt (M.I.T...
Married. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 59, lisping, giggling star of stage, screen, and radio, author-producer of Broadway hits (The Perfect Fool, The Grab Bag, Ed Wynn's Carnival), father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; and Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 41, of New Rochelle, N.Y.; he for the third time; she for the second; in Las Vegas...