National Affairs: Repentant Son

At the home of his friend Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr. in swank Radnor, Pa. where he was spending the shank end of his holiday from Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. climbed into his La Salle coupe late one night last week, rolled off to a dance in Philadelphia. Just outside town he slambanged into a parked automobile, giving its driver several bruised ribs, a cut on the eye. Charged with assault and battery by automobile, the President's third son was allowed to proceed to his dance by taxicab. Next night he appeared in court to explain that he had been...

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