Last week President Roosevelt at the age of 52 became a grandfather for the fifth time, when a 6 lb. 6 oz. girl was born in a Fort Worth, Tex. hospital. The baby's parents: Second Son Elliott and his second wife Ruth Googins, who were married last July, five days after Elliott had divorced Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt at Minden, Nev. (TIME, July 31) The baby's name: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, picked by her mother before she was born. Said Grandmother Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt: "Of course I'm thrilled to have another granddaughter, and awfully glad she has arrived. I shall certainly hope to see her this summer. If I go to the West Coast to meet the President at the end of his Pacific cruise, I shall stop off to visit them at Los Angeles. Even if he lands at Seattle I shall go around that way." Said Father Elliott, refusing to let newshawks take pictures of his child: "The less said about the baby the better." When Grandfather Roosevelt may see his fifth grandchild was uncertain.— He has not yet seen Daughter-in-law Ruth. . In Boston newspapers appeared notice of the dissolution of a copartnership, whose members—James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, Douglas Lawson and John A. Sargent—did business as general life insurance agents. At the time of the announcement Son James was in Cleveland with his wife dedicating a swimming pool for crippled children. Said Partner Lawson: "We put together the partnership in February 1933, and after a little more than a year we mutually decided we should dissolve. It just did not work as we had hoped." On the South portico of the White House the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, surprised her son by presenting him with a portrait of herself wearing a black gown and a stole of sables. Present at the ceremony were only members of the household and the artist, Pole Tade Styka.
*The other four Roosevelt grandchildren: Anna Roosevelt Ball, Curtis Roosevelt Ball-Sara Delano Roosevelt, daughter of Eldest Son James; William Bonner Roosevelt, son of Son Elliott by his first marriage.