Word: campobello
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...candidate for the U.S. Senate. Woodrow Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Roosevelt went on to win the vice-presidential nomination in the doomed 1920 campaign of James C. Cox. The next year, after two long days of sailing and swimming at his summer home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, he suffered a chill that was misdiagnosed, then the horrifying paralysis of polio. He was told that he would never walk again...
...Town. Starting in 1941 he also produced or oversaw the production of some 300 films, including Lassie Come Home, Blackboard Jungle and Tea and Sympathy. Dismissed as head of production at MGM in 1956 because stockholders were unhappy with company earnings, he turned to playwriting. His 1958 Sunrise at Campobello, won five Tony Awards...