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To the relief of the groom, who had spent a hot & bothered week answering questions about his bride's and mother's clothes, reporters were finally able to see for themselves Mrs. Roosevelt in voluminous Navy-and-Eleanor blue, the bridesmaids in hyacinth blue net, the maid-of-honor (Sally Clark) in peach net, the bride's mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother James Roosevelt's eye, winked. At the church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like an old-timer (see cut). The guests trooped after, to the Nahant Tennis Club. They consumed 500 bottles of imported champagne, and food which Secret Service in the kitchen had made sure was not poisoned. A popular morsel of their gossip was about Mrs. Franklin Jr. (Ethel du Pont) who is expecting a baby.
Presently Father Roosevelt, accompanied by his sons and other members of Harvard's Fly Club, disappeared in a private room to administer to Johnny the secret rites for newlywed brethren. When the time came, Johnny & Anne, their getaway covered by a bulky Secret Service car, set out to the summer home of Brother James's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing, at Rye Beach, N. H., thence to Campobello Island.
Expanding on the lawn in white flannels and a dark blue coat, Franklin Roosevelt declared: "A lovely day. ... A lovely occasion. ... I am very happy!"
"Beautiful!" beamed his wife.
¶ Steaming for Hyde Park on the Potomac, the President was delayed for 14 hours by fog in the Cape Cod Canal, gave his staff ashore quite a turn.
¶ The President, often disturbed by low-flying airplanes—even in his dreams (TIME, June 13)—signed an executive order roping off a wide section of Washington over which civilian pilots may not fly without special permission from the Secretary of Commerce. The area: a quarter-mile outside of the rectangle at whose corners stand the Union Station, the Capitol, the Naval Hospital, the White House.