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Many people think foreign cars are better cars. How do you overcome that perception? Joe Longworth SPOKANE, WASH...
...Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from the grass of 10,000 country clubs. Still, a tumultuous Republican Convention picked Willkie to be Roosevelt's third opponent...
Amidst the bustling traffic on what is known as the “JFK bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...
...Whip smart and witty, eccentric and strikingly beautiful, had she been born in another age, Alice Roosevelt Longworth might have ended up a scientist, a writer or a particularly brutal judge on American Idol. Instead, she is remembered as one of the capital's most successful hostesses, a gifted gossip whose decades of sharing filet of beef and sly one-liners with statesmen and their wives led her to call herself "an ambulatory Washington monument...
...lavish East Room wedding, Alice married Nicholas Longworth, an Ohio Congressman who shared little with her besides an interest in Republican politics. A drinker and a playboy, Longworth quickly earned his wife's "complete contempt," says Sturm. Alice also grew to resent her do-gooder cousins Franklin and Eleanor, often mocking Eleanor's bucktoothed smile at dinner parties. "Grammy couldn't stand earnestness," Sturm says...