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Marriage to Cousin Franklin seemed a lucky break, but Mother-in-Law Sara turned out to be a meddlesome tyrant, and Franklin himself had a few flaws as a husband. To this list we can now add a posthumous problem for Eleanor: her son Elliott seems bent on committing the equivalent of literary matricide...
Self-sacrificing? Praiseworthy? Not as Son Elliott sees it. His mother was a poor housekeeper, he reports, and did not feed the children as well as Granny Sara did. Girl and woman, she was a dissembler. She let on that her father was simply a boozer, failing to mention that he also had a brain tumor. To ingratiate herself with the bigoted Sara, she feigned anti-Semitic notions. Much later, as a columnist, she had the nerve to "picture herself as a calm, contented woman," rather than as the "detached, harried, faultfinding wife and parent we knew." To Daughter Anna...
...fashion world thrives on small controversies; last week's was over skirt length. To some retailers, some of the BigSkirts looked like a secondhand midi of a few seasons back. That calf-length style was a fiasco. Said Sara Monteil, a buyer for Continental Purchasing Co.: "American buyers remember the midi just like the Alamo and they aren't going to repeat old mistakes." Griped Norman Wechsler of Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident...
Captain Meg Morgan was shut out in her singles match against Marjone Gengler, 6-0, 6-0, while senior Sara Stearns lost to Jane Kincaid, 6-1, 6-0. Princeton's Sue Epstein likewise shut out Junior Jill Robertson while Marjone's sister Louise Gengler defeated sophomore Joy Skon, 6-1, 6-2. Ingrid Sarapuu and Marcy Richmond also lost their matches, 6-0, 6-2 and 6-1, 6-0 respectively...
Associate Editor William Smith, a World writer for the past three years who has visited most of the Arab countries, drew on his own impressions and, assisted by Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy and Sara Medina, wrote the story...