Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brunette Bootsie started out as a leg-woman for her husband's old column, These Charming People, in Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. When Igor was drafted in 1943, "Cissie" Patterson let Bootsie step in as his wartime substitute. Washingtonians liked the substitute better than the original : her stuff was not deep, but it avoided the catty approach that once got Igor tarred & feathered (TIME, July 3, 1939). As the daughter of an old and horsy Virginia family, in whose house Igor took refuge after being tarred, Bootsie had a better entry into Capital society...
Married. Harry P. Davison, 48, Morgan-partner-son of Morgan-partner Henry P. Davison; and Eleanor Sparks Martin, fortyish, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, K.B.E., Cunard White Star Line resident director in the U.S.; he for the second time; she for the third; in East Norwich...
...F.D.R.'s second son, Elliott Roosevelt, with a foreword by Eleanor Roosevelt. (Says Elliott in an introduction: "I shared his most intimate thoughts...
...reputation was probably already past saving. For a fortnight he had stood accused of everything from dabbling in war contracts to arranging for reluctant soldiers to remain in the continental U.S. But until pert Eleanor Hall, a former Garsson secretary, took the stand, there had been no evidence to indicate he had actually received any cash payments for his services. She supplied...
...third occasion she had overheard one of her bosses talking about "the $1,000 for Yankel." That, she explained, was their nickname for Andrew Jackson May. (Added a committee counsel: "Yiddish for Little Jack. . . . It means he is not too smart.") Said Eleanor Hall succinctly: "a bunch of crooks." Pretty, red-haired Jean Bates, a coworker, agreed...