WOMEN: At the White House

For a Washington widow, for the wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt—daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John...

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