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...John Boettiger, married a year to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's daughter Anna, signed a contract to run Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Last week his contract was renewed, to run until...
When John Boettiger speaks of the Post-Intelligencer his editorial We is no figure of speech. For Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, with her mother's charm and energy, admittedly contributes a potent voice to her husband's policies...
...help Nazi women stay pretty although they lack an adequate supply of soap, creams and lotions, Beauty Expert Anna Charlotte Romer of the German Labor Front last week offered hints...
Greater of the two was bewhiskered Johann II, who wrote the Blue Danube and the operetta Fledermaus. One cause of his greatness was the jealous ambition of his mother, Frau Anna Strauss. Her husband Johann, one of the doggiest of Vienna's gay dogs, transgressed (to the extent of five illegitimate children) with an attractive milliner named Emilie Trampusch. Frau Strauss kept a stiff upper lip, concentrated on making her Johann II a better man than his father. So while Johann I gadded about, Johann II composed and practiced the organ in church. His teachers, who expected...
...Mother Anna joined the Major in St. Petersburg in 1843, bringing young Jimmie and Willie (aged 9 and 7) and Deborah, the Major's child by his first marriage. While Mrs. Whistler glowingly distributed Bible tracts to the Tsar's soldiers, who used them to stuff their boots, Major Whistler saw 30,000 serfs sweating twelve hours a day to make his embankments symmetrical, heard his haughty Russian friends warn against ever giving the serfs a decent meal lest it upset their stomachs. In the evenings the Major solaced himself by playing the flute (he had been "Pipes...