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Birthday. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Hyde Park matriarch who once wrote a book titled My Boy Franklin; her 86th...
...Albany, or to ease some useful protege into a key Federal spot. Another intimate of long standing, though he seldom appears in the public eye, is Mr. Roosevelt's onetime (1925-33) law partner, Basil O'Connor, who is personal lawyer both to the President and to Sara Delano Roosevelt. Still another, surprisingly enough, is onetime Attorney General Homer Cummings, who by running the Department of Justice on the basis of political patronage put the New Deal on many a spot. Tommy Corcoran once asked Sam Rosenman why grubby Homer Cummings was kept so long in the Attorney...
...northern wing of Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt's pleasant, quasi-Georgian home at Hyde Park, is "the little study." It is Franklin Roosevelt's particular room-the place where he reads, works, ponders, fondles his blue-bound naval scrapbooks, welcomes intimate friends for intimate talks. One afternoon last week, the President and a friend had a long talk in the little study. The friend was James Aloysius Farley...
...Manhattan, put on a big show (see below). It also elected a new president (term: one year). Surgeon Frank Howard Lahey, "the Mayo of Boston," is famed for his scientific achievements. In 1922, Dr. Lahey started a small clinic on Commonwealth Avenue, with Drs. Lincoln Fleetford Sise and Sara Murray Jordan, outstanding woman gastroenterologist (specialist in intestinal disorders) in the U. S. Dr. Lahey specialized in clipping thyroids. So dexterous was his technique that within 17 years he and his associates had performed over 15,000 operations, lost only 100 patients...
...Best actress: Sara Allgood, as ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno in the revival of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock...