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...aide, Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, whose father Josephus had been Roosevelt's boss as Secretary of the Navy, makes this claim in his new book The Time Between the Wars. The story of the romance is not exactly new. Columnist Westbrook Pegler insinuatingly linked F.D.R. with Lucy in the 1940s as part of his vendetta against the Roosevelts. In The Crisis of the Old Order, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote that "Eleanor may have sensed something" about her husband's "friendly affection" for Lucy, whom Schlesinger described as "a sweet, womanly person, somewhat...
...room at home, his Eagle Scout badges are hung on a wall not far from his plastic-encased draft notice). One moment he will shrug boyishly about his draft call, expected in July, as a "necessary evil." Then he will turn studiedly philosophical, frowning heavily and puffing on a Raleigh cigarette as he says: "Most students I know are more worried about actually going into the military than they are about what'll happen after they're in. Their worries center around whatever dislocation and interruption it causes them. We have our own personal dreams and hopes...
Bombing Flour Sacks. The craft, so small that it tucks into a garage, so light that it can be lifted to the airfield atop a Thunderbird, was developed by Igor Bensen, 49, a Russian-born engineer. In the 1950s he set up Bensen Aircraft in Raleigh, N.C., to make and market sets of parts, which cost anywhere from $700 without engine to $2,600 for a complete kit that bolts together like an Erector set. To help push his product, Bensen founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association three years ago. Membership has already grown to 4,000 in all 50 states...
Elected last night as the ninth member of Phi Beta Kappa's Junior Eight was Philip E. Ray '67, of Adams House and Raleigh, N.C., English Ray's name had been omitted from the original list of candidates through a clerical error...
...Duke: an incredible 21-20 basketball victory over North Carolina in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference's playoffs; at Raleigh, N.C. Hoping to upset the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils, who have averaged 86 points a game, North Carolina went into a deliberate stall, thus producing one of the lowest scoring games in years...