Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Wiese did not underestimate her. He well knew that Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the Journal's star contributors. Her 1937 memoirs (This Is My Story) and monthly question & answer page (If You Ask Me) had helped push the Journal to its No. 1 spot in the U.S. women's magazine field (TIME, Oct. 4). He could hardly believe his ears when Mrs. Roosevelt told him that the Journal's co-editors, Bruce and Beatrice Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese...
Last week, when McCall's hit the newsstands with the first installment of Eleanor Roosevelt's memoirs (with the author's picture on the cover) Journal Co-Editor Beatrice Gould explained why she had wanted it done over. Said she: "Frankly, we felt that the memoirs were superficial in their treatment of some matters...
...Rootless Family. Eleanor Roosevelt's first installment does have some of the rambling, gossipy quality of a club-car conversation on a long train ride. But from it emerge poignant flashes of the confusion of life with a man who had also married destiny. "As I saw it," she wrote of her reactions to FDR's first election as President, "this meant the end of any personal life for me." She blames her children's early unsuccessful marriages on the fact that in all its peregrinations the family was "not really rooted in any particular home." Surprisingly...
...Hyde Park, "I had no feeling that it belonged to me" because it was dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...Push from the Publisher. Mrs. Roosevelt found there were new worries. The President was soon so preoccupied with national problems, said she, that he had scant time for the troubles of his sons. They discovered, to their resentment, that even they had to make appointments to see him. One of them who went to his father for advice was startled to have the President hand him a paper and say: "This is a most important document. I should like to have your opinion on it." The indignant son told his mother: "Never again will I try to talk to father...