Word: rutherfurd
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...House press corps's grand old man, U.P.I.'s late Merriman Smith, used to regale the young scribes with stories of his days on Franklin Roosevelt's train from Washington to Hyde Park, N.Y., how it would stop on a New Jersey siding for a rendezvous with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. Smith never wrote the story, never had any final facts...
...Soon after Thanksgiving 1944 . . Lucy Rutherfurd told me something that was very revealing . . . "You know, I had the most fascinating hour I've ever had. [F.D.R.] just sat there and told me of some of what he regarded as the real problems facing the world now. I just couldn't get over thinking of what I was listening to, and then he would stop and say, 'You see that knoll over there? That's where I did this-or-that.' He would interrupt himself, you know. And we just sat there and looked...
...shirking administrative duties but excelling as an editorial writer who advocated a non-confrontational approach to integrating the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Daniels also wrote more than a dozen books, including two that were the first in-depth accounts of F.D.R.'s romance with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd...
...remarkable re-enactment of Roosevelt's heart attack and death at Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945 during a portrait sitting. The other is that the show tackles an aspect of F.D.R.'s life not generally known until recently. Kim Hunter shares the billing with Robards as Lucy Rutherfurd, the President's longtime friend who was with him-unbeknownst to Wife Eleanor-when he died. The historic triangle, says NBC, is handled "tastefully...
...coffin was being carried north on a slow train through crowds of mourners when Eleanor found out about Lucy Rutherfurd's presence at Warm Springs. In a rage, she later confronted Anna, who confessed that she had often helped her father meet with the woman. "He asked you?" cried Eleanor...