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Into My Boy Franklin Mrs. Roosevelt has packed her best recollections of her son's childhood. As a baby he was ''plump, pink and nice.'' A model youngster, he never got spanked. Early association with grown-ups matured him rapidly and he soon became "a responsible little body . . . with a pretty conservative sense of values." Once an aunt told him he was full of tact. His reply: "Yes, I'm just chock full of tacks." He was always busy collecting stamps, building tree houses, modeling boats, stuffing birds, riding his pony. Recalls his mother...
...away anything his friends admired, used to keep 20 or 30 men working till late in the evening and then take them all to a musical show. His own taste ran to sentimental "gypsy" music and Viennese waltzes which he would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself...
...Plump and pink Queen Wilhelmina, whose nose grew red as she went sleigh-riding in Switzerland last week, pronounced a solemn Speech from the Throne before she left The Hague. Mindful of her Dutch East Indies, in which live 60,000,000 of Her Majesty's 69,000,000 subjects, she gave them a new and more dignified name: Netherlands India...
...plump little donkey named Juanita kicked up a mighty rumpus in New England last week, brought pain and embarrassment to the American Red Cross. In the January Junior Red Cross News, monthly journal for children, was a story about a 10-year-old Spaniard named Rafael and a donkey he found abandoned at the foot of a cliff. Uncle Bastiano and Aunt Ana did not care for their nephew's asinine Juanita. On St. Anthony's Eve, Rafael begged a peseta on the road, set out to have Juanita bedecked and blessed next day in front...
...good part of each year he spends in France, either in his Paris house or at Pau where he is Master of Fox Hounds. After the death of Cleveland's Myron Timothy Herrick, Frederick Henry Prince was mentioned for Ambassador to France but New Jersey's plump, influential Senator Edge beat him to it. Other interests of Businessman Prince are his big America's Cup yacht Weetamoe and the swank Myopia Country Club which he and his friends founded, taking the name from the fact that most of them were nearsighted...