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...plastic Coke bottles and the denim-clad undergrads would remind you that you were still in the 21st century. With the regal grace of 1940s high society, alumni and students alike gathered in Adams House for the third annual FDR Memorial Lecture and Gala Dinner. A speech given by Franklin Roosevelt’s grandson, Curtis Roosevelt, was followed by a black-tie dinner and dancing, complete with a live 10-piece orchestra playing jazz standards from...
...other presidents have been heavily commemorated on campus,” said Michael D. Weishan ’86, president of the FDR Suite Foundation. “Poor Franklin was left alone...
...hindered my career at all. Miss Franklin can get around. I have been everywhere, believe me, on this bus--everywhere except across the ocean. And if it were an amphibious bus, I might do that. When I was flying, I never saw the U.S. and what it really looked like. I saw the back of the concert hall, the hotel and the airport. Now I really see America. The last time I flew was in '82. I had such a bad flight. A two-engine plane. The flight was dipsy-doodling up and down all the way home. I said...
...have heard some of your father C.L. Franklin's powerful sermons. How was it growing up in such a spiritual setting...
...watch an interview with Aretha Franklin and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions...