Word: rosenbach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House women, Daughter Lynda Bird Johnson, 20, announced last week that she had decided to break off her ten-month engagement to Navy Lieut. (j.g.) Bernard Rosenbach...
...those things." She is fascinated by politics, often dons a bathrobe, pads across the hall to sprawl on the President's bed and talk over the morning headlines. Once determined to be a history teacher, Lynda may skip a career, for she is engaged to Lieut, (j.g.) Bernard Rosenbach of Comfort, Texas. No wedding date has been set, but the President's daughter proudly wears Bernie's ring-a one-half carat center diamond flanked by two smaller diamonds...
Lynda Bird's engagement to Roman Catholic Bernard Rosenbach is causing an ecclesiastical murmur. The White House refuses to say whether or not she is taking Catholic instruction. The zealous Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State sees the coming marriage as a chance for the Catholic Church to prove the sincerity of its new ecumenical intentions by "permitting Miss Johnson to choose her own clergyman and waiving the traditional Catholic commitment...
...very sensible answer," said L.B.J. "He's 79, and he looks 59, and he never had but one job in his life-engineer for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company." Johnson then introduced Lynda Bird's fiancé: "Ensign Bernie Rosenbach...
...hard scholarship palled; Rosenbach was better suited to hard selling. He learned quickly that a book was worth what someone would pay for it, and he became adept at nurturing the gluttony of those who could pay. An early client was a rich young Philadelphian named Harry Widener, who went down with the Titanic; his collection became the nucleus of Harvard's Widener Library. The doctor's Philadelphia shop was hardly grand enough for his new trade, and he opened a New York branch in a baronial town house on Madison Avenue. His hospitality was lavish; during Prohibition...