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...Harris' successor like a big-business board of directors looking for a new vice president in charge of advertising. The man they picked, after six months of winnowing and weighing, would be an asset to the advertising department of any firm. The Rev. Dr. Theodore Henry Palmquist, 53, of Los Angeles' big (some 2,400 members) Wilshire Methodist Church, has the go-getting drive and the social flair of a successful adman-which was just what he started...
Family: In 1925, after four years of courtship, District Attorney Warren married Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a young widow with a six-year-old son, James. In addition to James, who was adopted and given the Warren name, they have two sons, Earl Jr., 23, and Robert, 18, and three photogenic daughters, Virginia, 25, Dorothy, 22, and Nina Elizabeth ("Honey Bear"), 19. Woeful California Democrats used to say: "You can beat Earl Warren, but how can you beat that family...
Madden, Thomas James of 15 Woodland Road, Minneapolis; St. Thomas Military Academy, St. Paul. Neale, Daniel Christopher of 2252 Folwell Street, St. Paul; Murray High, St. Paul. Palmquist, Keith Paul Stanley of 3901 South 13 Avenue, Minneapolis; Roosevelt High, Minneapolis. Parsons, Laurence White of 928 Exchange Street, Keokuk, Ia.; Keokuk Senior High, Schellinger, Richard Ralph of 920 6th Avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Abraham Lincoln High, Council Bluffs. Harvard Club of Minnesota Scholarship...
...moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married: in 1925, to Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a young Oakland widow with a son, James. Children: James, 28 (adopted); Virginia, 19; Earl Jr. ("Juju"), 18; Dorothy, 16; Nina Elizabeth ("Honey Bear"), 14; Robert, 13. Church: Protestant...
...Warrens changed the mansion into a gleaming monument to the gingerbread era in American architecture, filled its spacious, high-ceilinged rooms with rollicking laughter which had not been heard there for decades. The Warren family is self-sufficient. The Governor and his wife (the former Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a widow, whom he married in 1925) have never entertained much. Mrs. Warren explains: "I had five children in six years, and you can't do much entertaining then...