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"Can you love me in my every humour? Or would you prefer to think of me as always dignified?" wrote Woodrow Wilson to his first wife, Ellen Louise Axson, during their courtship. "I am afraid it would kill me," he added, "to be always thoughtful, sensible, dignified and decorous." But until a collection of 1,458 love letters to "Miss Ellie Lou" was presented to Princeton University by the couple's youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor McAdoo, 72, the world's image of Wilson was just that. Covering a span of 31 years, from their first meeting until Mrs. Wilson's death from Bright's disease in the White House in 1914, the letters show a sentimental side of the man. In a letter shortly before Mrs. Wilson died, the President wrote to his vacationing wife: "Do you realize that I have been alone (what I consider alone) in this old mansion for just about half the time I have been President? . . . My heart is too full to go on—full to overflowing with love for you all, but particularly for the sweetest wife in the world." It was signed: "Your own Woodrow."
Ever since Marilyn Monroe was buried last August, a black vase at the crypt in Hollywood's Westwood Memorial Park has been filled with fresh red roses. The cemetery's mortician finally identified the sender. He was Marilyn's second husband, Joe DiMaggio, 47, who requested simply: "Twice a week—forever."