The Coolidge examiner., 1938-06-02
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

BY LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK. Mrs. Joseph P.
l Kennedy has been an effective
social and political ally of both her
father, former mayor Of Boston, and
her husband, am
Mrs. Kennedy bassador to the
Aids Father Court of St.
and Husband James. But the
news that. in ac-
cordance with her husbands deci-
sion, she presented only seven
American women at court is one Of
her rare appearances in the head
lines.
The II engaging Kennedys have
been viewed more or less en- bloc in
the news and Mrs. Kennedy has
never been in a very sharp lens
focus.
She was one of the prettiest
OF Boston debutantes, 30 years
ago, a rOllicking girl with black
hair and eyes of Irish blue.
Back home from her convent
training, she taught her father
'Sweet Adeline."
He was John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitz-
gerald, and in his campaigns he
sang his way to memorable political
fame-riding like a surfboard the
long, lingering ''swipes" of the song
taught him by his daughter-''th the
flower of his heart"
Joseph P. Kennedy, her childhood
playmate. was twenty-five years old
when they were
Fortune and married in 1914.
Family Grew He borrowed ST.
payment on a $6,-
500 house. Their fortunes grew as
their family, with Mr.. Kennedy
president of bank, in a year or two
after their marriage.
Mrs. Kennedy once told a Boston
drygoodS clerk that she bought 200
suits and dresses a year. It takes
heap Of shopping to make home,
like the Kennedys', and she became
known among her friends as a para
gon of household efficiency COM
parable to the one in Solomon's off
hand apostrophe to such Skills and
virtues.
Now she is mistress OF the
"castle" which was once j.
PierpOnt Morgan's home; also
of a beautiful mansion in Bronx
vile, n. Y, a huge summer es-
tate at Hyannisport, Cape Cod,
and villa at Palm Beach, built
by one of the Wanamakers.
She is slender and girlish, comeI
and vivacious. weighs lis pound!
and takes size Il
Has Diamond in dresses. Won
u OleHtQtS hSI hAohCo HSh
Might Envy gowns gowns and nd she ne,is is
women for her magnificent jewels
notable among them being a ruby
and diamond bracelet which, it is
said, is matched only by the one
the Aga Khan gave his princess.
But she never lets the children
run to unseemly display, hold
ing them to restraint in regime
and dress. Even without all
these adventitious fxings, say
her friends, she would be an ad-
mirable ambassadors wife, with
her own quite adequate equip
ment of tact, charm and intelli-
gence.
MAN and boy, this journeyman
A'A has helped process a lot Of
and adventurers' copy
through the news mill. If it was
ghoSt-written, it had only slick and
synthetic excitement, like Ersatz
pastry, and if it wasn't it was usu-
ally dull. Happily in contrast are
the doubtlessly authentic and per-
sonally written yarns of W. H. Til
man, leader of the British Mount
Everest expedition, now getting TN
der way.
These stories from the Tibetan
base camp have professional ease
:, and fluency, along
I arms from with a ring of in
Mt. Everest tegrity which
Ring True gives assurance
that Mr.. Tilman is
really writing them. There is no
ghost on the job here.
Mr.. Tilman is thirty-nine years
Did. keen-faced, hard-muscled
Britisher of medium stature, who
has been exploring ever since he
eft college.
He has climbed mountains in the
Alps and in Africa, including Mounts
kenya, Kilimanjaro and Ruvenzori.
This is his fifth expedition to the