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...Eleanor Roosevelt's scrawling hand. The letters, at Hickok's direction, ended up in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library with the proviso that they would not be opened until ten years after her death, which occurred in 1968. Many of them are included in The Life of Lorena Hickok, a biography by Doris Faber to be published by William Morrow & Co. in February. As a whole, they suggest an intimate relationship never previously considered...
...Hick, darling. I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close." The year was 1933. The writer: Eleanor Roosevelt. "Hick" was Lorena Hickok, a burly A.P. reporter assigned to cover Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Died. Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 78, "Mother of the Year" in 1965, who believed that "Youngsters expect a little discipline," neither spared the rod nor spoiled the brood of five boys and a girl, saw her sons become president of the University of Utah, vice president of Western Electric, vice president of Sandia Corp., professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University, and a top researcher for NASA; of liver disease; in Salt Lake City...
...summer's day in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson of Christ Church, Oxford, went punting on the Thames with three charming little girls named Alice, Lorena, and Edith Liddell. Alice as usual asked him to tell her a story, and since he was in great form that day she begged him to write the story down. "And so, to please a child I love," he later explained, "I printed in manuscript, and illustrated with my own crude designs, this little book." "This little book," entitled Alice's Adventures under Ground, was the first draft of a later...
...seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best," and so the American Mothers Committee, Inc., picked Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 76, from outstanding mothers across the country, proclaimed her 1965's "Mother of the Year...