The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-23


 Like ell the RoosevcIts, he Is an individualist. Except that his individualisrn, perhaps because there are 60 many other Rooge- voIts crowding the headlines, has taken weird and exotic forrig,
 For . boy oe his age he has not done badly at keeping alive the presidential name, his chief contribution being Co have it SCrawIed aerOsg Che police bI0t- terB lII some New England and the Middle Atlantic states.
 Franklin is . very perFcnabIe young man, with plenty of charm, Q contangious sense Of huinor, and on incgdinate capacity for doing the wrong thing at the wrong mo- ment.
 GiIt-Edged student
 However, most of Harvard, where he is now about to enter his senior year, has had little opportunity to baSk ir the radl- aIice of his personality. For, af- ter two years of dormitory life, Franklin has retired from the mundane world to live ifl e private house, surrounded by sons of Liberty Leaguers and others who demand the downfall of his fath- CTS administration.
 This is the gIlt.edged SnOb- bishness against which the HAr- yard Crimson rants as being diss Fuptlng to thc Harvard House
 cFoss-sectlOn plan Established by Hardness nOneyl, whereby the GTOtOn boys with 2 broad A and their own TOadgters arc
 mixed with run.Of. .the-cOOp high school grads.
 Young Franklin, nevertheless, hied himself away from all this democracy to a Gold Coast dwell- ing ct % Plympton street. It iB next to Adang House, where once lived his father and also John Reed, communiBt hero, whose picture now hangs therc-- much to the anguish of tho red- batting congressman, Ham r1Sn' Boon Companions
 Living with Franklin ig the son of William Marshall Dullitt, staunch Louisville, Ky, republic can and solicitor-general under Taft. Also Thomas Husband, son of Q New York advertising man. TomB home is now in Chicago with his mother, divorced and now married to millionaire Socialite Robert Stevenson.
 Also Browning Endicott Mareail, Jr., one of the best Boston names, direct descendant of Robert Browning and grandson of Emma Endicott Marean, lesser poet Of Cambridge, Also Bob Haley, Harvard football captain who was dropped from that position last year for infringement of intcrcol- legiate football rules, and invited by Franklin to come and live at 22 Plympton aS Q sort Of corlSola" ton prize.
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 A proctor also lives with them, a social-regIsteritc and law stu- dent who doesn't bother them much. Tho boys rent the whole hotwe, hire . coIoged boy to clean up, and take their meals at the Fly club, which President Roose. welt visited last winter. There have been no riots, no complaints to the police and c few of the students arc aware or care very mucn, where the flrst-family scion lives.
 Just the same Franklin found it necessary last winter to dlScon- meet his telephone, even though it was in the name of his rooIfl- mate, Thomas Husband. This was becauge, after his befricnding Of tho i6.year old paralytic girl. Dor othy Porter, whom his father spoke to last winter, Franklin was hounded by Q horde of local supplicantg seeking the Inside track to the White House,
 Ex.Barncy Oldflcld
 Franklin has toneds down hiB Barney Oldfield inStincG to . considerable extent now, but 1t took c lot of parental >whlp-crack- ing to do 1t.
 For there was . day when young Roosevelt even drove hts roadster deliberately into . tree, on . bet with friend that he could hit lt at . speed of go miles an hour without serious damage. A broken fender and . large gabh ln the tree were the only results, and t was general. Iy accepted that Franklin had proved his point.
 The rest Of Franklin's motor- ing record is not as successful as that. For time, he was . dafi- gcrous menace on the highway.
 f9e began August iT, 1882, while his father was running for presi- dent, when 6 cop pulled him n at gmithfield, R T., for speeding with atl expired license. He was released. Next fall ct Cambridge, no was repFimanded for parking at tho entrance of President Con- ant,a home, Shortly afterWhrd nc