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...spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take to one another...
...administer to Johnny the secret rites for newlywed brethren. When the time came, Johnny & Anne, their getaway covered by a bulky Secret Service car, set out to the summer home of Brother James's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing, at Rye Beach, N. H., thence to Campobello Island...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., sailing near the Roosevelt estate at Campobello Island, were caught in a calm. Caretaker Franklin Calder put out from shore in a motorboat, towed them back. Two days later they sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain for a European honeymoon...
...went ashore last week and once more climbed back on to the front page. His seagoing sideburns were gone before he showed himself in range of a camera. A few minutes after dark his chartered schooner Sewanna dropped anchor in Friar's Bay below the Roosevelt cottage on Campobello Island, N. B. Forty red-coated Canadian police drawn up on the dock snapped him a brisk salute as the sleepy President went in to supper...
...Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, then set out on a short motoring survey of New England's flood-control...