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LUCY PAGE MERCER RUTHERFURD, "a sweet, womanly person" whose relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is called "one of the great love stories of American history." See THE NATION...
Intriguing Romance. The romance cooled in 1918, and then, writes Daniels, "supposedly he ended forever his relations with Lucy Mercer." In 1920, five months before Roosevelt became the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President, Lucy Mercer was wed to a man 30 years her senior, Winthrop Rutherfurd, a New York society figure whose first wife-a daughter of former Vice President Levi Morton-had died in 1917 after bearing him five children. Lucy bore him one daughter...
...Rutherfurd came from much the same blueblood milieu as the Roosevelts, was a descendant of both Peter Stuyvesant, the first Governor of New York, and John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts. His father was first a law partner of William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, and later a leading astronomer. One of his own descendants, Grandson Lewis Rutherfurd, last month married Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy's half-sister, in the biggest society wedding of the year...
Married. Janet Jennings Auchincloss, 21, half-sister of Jacqueline Kennedy; and Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, 21, Princeton '66; in Newport, R.I., in an event-of-the-season ceremony in which John F. Kennedy Jr. was a page, Caroline a flower girl, and Jackie among the almost 900 guests...
Looking over the old management's calculations, Rutherfurd and his finance committee agreed that some of the railroad's cash reserves were too low, accord ingly replenished them out of current income. About $2,200,000, for example, went to fill up the reserve for liability claims. By the time Rutherfurd and his men had finished editing the McGinnis management's books, they had a total charge against income of $4,395,000. To this they added a $634,000 operating loss for the month of December, caused largely by rough weather and aging equipment, then subtracted...