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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. & wife Ethel du Pont were out $15 apiece. They finally turned up at a Long Island traffic court to face the music (after three delays) for speeding in their cars last July, were punished with $15 fines. They pleaded guilty to the speeding charge, but took exception to one detail: they were absolutely not racing each other...
...Lake Success, L. I., Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. & Wife Ethel du Pont (both in absentia) got firm tuts from a police court judge. In July they had been charged with racing each other in their cars; in August, they had got their cases postponed, twice. Now they failed to come to court. Declared the judge after a half-hour wait: if they didn't turn up next fortnight, he would really have to send...
...works straight through, often without lunch, until 6. Her corner office is tiny (12 ft. by 15 ft.). Her desk has a bargain-basement clutter of sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before an adamantine customer who knows exactly what she wants, regardless, Sophie gracefully gives...
Married. Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, 26, of the Cellophane-Nylon-gunpowder dynasty, and Arminda Rea Dunning, 20, of New Jersey; in Manhattan...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 33, seemed to be going places fast. He was summoned to appear in traffic court on a charge of speeding at 52 m.p.h. in a playful race near U.N. headquarters on Long Island with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt (who got a summons, too). He was also appointed legal counsel for the A.F.L.'s Upholsterers International Union of North America...