Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ludlow Griscom, 68, a leading U.S. field ornithologist who used to go bird watching with Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II; after long illness; in Cambridge. Mass...
...BEFORE YESTERDAY (478 pp.)-Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.-Double...
...pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...
Then, and for 34 years thereafter, Eleanor Alexander Roosevelt* was determined that her husband, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the ex-President's oldest son, should derive the deep strengths of the T.R. tradition from his father without being blotted out by it. "You know. Father," she said to T.R. one day at Sagamore Hill, "Ted has always worried for fear he would not be worthy of you." T.R. replied: "Worthy of me? I walk with my head higher because...
Poison Gas & the Y. It is this quality of a woman's pride in her husband, "cloaked inevitably and perpetually by the shadow of his father's fame," that lifts these meticulous, glittering reminiscences by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. into the category of memorable U.S. biography. Her book is dedicated to her belief that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1944) is an undiscovered great American...