Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf-Astoria reception he hammily bussed the hand of an old friend, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. At a TV session, he was asked if he kisses babies when he goes politicking. His reply: "I like children, I like babies! I can't help kissing babies!"* At week's end, after a day in Philadelphia, hail-well-met Sukarno bounced onward to Illinois...
...Franklin Roosevelt's at the White House. The grandchild was John Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt's only child by her second husband. The christening took place on the second floor of the White House; four generations of Roosevelts were there: the President's mother, the President and Eleanor, their daughter Anna and her husband (since dead), and, of course, little Johnny, whom the President kept waggling a finger at during the ceremony. After the christening was over, we all drank champagne...
...year, the Corporation broke its long-standing rule of not awarding honorary degrees to women. Helen Keller was the first winner; this year, another uncontroversial woman such as Helen Hayes, who marks her fiftieth year in the theater, may win. A more controversial figure, but still a possibility, is Eleanor Roosevelt...
...vital a role do civil rights and the Dawson line play in Democratic strategy that in New York last week Adlai Stevenson made a Dawson-like pitch the theme of a Waldorf-Astoria fund-raising dinner (net result: $140,000) that attracted such civil-rights stalwarts as Eleanor Roosevelt, New York's Senator Herbert Lehman and New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner...
...Critic Eleanor Jewett. "The influence of Marca-Relli, Baziotes, De Kooning, Matta and Picasso ... is so obvious that it hurts." Pointing to this year's out-of-town jury (Manhattan's Painter Hedda Sterne and Sculptor Ibram Lassaw, Carnegie Institute's Fine Arts Director Gordon Bailey Washburn), Critic Jewett snorted, "Originality has been sacrificed in the jury's sustained effort to make this Midwest exhibition as like as possible to a New York modern show...