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...before Christmas when the President went out to light the community Christmas tree opposite the White House in LaFayette Square, he was accompanied by a round dozen members of his family (see cut). Nor were they the only family members at the White House. Only members absent were Daughter Anna, now living in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger, newly chosen to run William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer; Son Franklin Jr., lying in a Boston hospital with streptococcus and sinus trouble; Franklin Jr.'s fiancee Ethel du Pont, and one grandchild. William Donner Roosevelt, son of Elliott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Family & Friends | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL, who recent won the Nobel prize for literature, lives on an island off the coast of Georgia. Subjected to increases attention and public blandishment since his Anna Christie in 1922, he tells few people how he feels about it, even when he wins such meritorious attention as the Nobel prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER These Names Make News | 12/12/1936 | See Source »

Under a bright Hawaiian moon, dainty Anna May Wong put out to sea one night last week in a pineapple barge. Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sea Stall | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) * and, on the principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball, is slated to be women's editor of the PI. If Mrs. Boettiger takes this job, she will be the third member of the Roosevelt family in Hearst employ. Brother Elliott is a vice president of Hearst Radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Seattle Settlement | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Angeles, Mrs. Anna Johnson, 81, who customarily shaved her crippled 91-year-old husband with a straight razor, slashed his throat, then hanged herself. In a note addressed to the police she explained : "The last 40 years he has been chasing other women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yugoslavia | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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