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...Millstones. But from the beginning she found herself overshadowed by competitors. "Uncle Ted" attended her wedding, and the bride & groom found themselves standing alone at the reception while the guests crowded up to hear the President tell stories. After the honeymoon her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, treated her like a child. The old lady controlled the family purse strings; she hired the bride's servants, and ruled the bride's house and husband: Franklin always deferred to his mother. A longtime acquaintance remembers Sara Roosevelt saying before company, in thoughtless brutality: "Eleanor...
According to their neighbors, the six Arizona wives also go from door to door in their spare time selling homemade layettes and spectacle-cleaning tissues. But even after jailing Hilda Dutson, 46, Arline Dutson, 48, Hazel Dutson, 55, Lura Dutson, 44, Sara Dutson, 43, and Anna Dutson, 33, the local law didn't have too much hope of catching their lord & master...
Married. Marriner S. Eccles, 61, Utah banker and sound-currency chairman of the Federal Reserve System's board of governors from 1936 until President Truman demoted him in 1948, and one of the architects of New Deal finance; and Mrs. Sara Madison Classic, 43, of Chevy Chase, Md.; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...worldly little circle of summer friends taking their cues and comforts from well-heeled Sam and Sara Dunn, Sam's cousin Peter Cowley is a bit of a boob, but useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...
...doctors gave him plenty of advice about what not to eat, too little about what he should eat. This led to a sorry circle: "Eating became a worry, and worry generates hydrochloric acid, and hydrochloric acid induces ulcers." After his "third or fourth ulcer," he took dinner with Dr. Sara Jordan of Boston's Lahey Clinic, picked a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Jordan suggested meringue glac...