Evening star., 1949-08-07

ana tOlQ MN aDOuC IL, ana tHat
was that"
Miss Tully has recently put
down her memories of those
crowded years at F. D. RS elbow
in IF. D. R.-My Boss" book
which will be published next
month.
Loyal to Entire Family.
Loyalty was the quality which
the President priced above all 9TH
ers in a secretary. Miss Tully said.
Her loyalty and affection reaches
out to include the whole Roose-
velt family, who accepted her as
one of themselves from the time
she first went to work for Mrs.
R." in 1928, when that lady was
handling the women's political
work for Alfred E. Smith. True
blue, she worked for three years
after the Presidents death in the
National Archives, going over his
papers. Now she Is executive
secretary of the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Memorial Foundation,
which has as it's goal the founding
of international exchange schol-
arshlps.
"Punctuality didn't matter so
much at the White House." Miss
Tully recalled, during an inter-
view the other day. because If we
worked late. at night we didn' t
start early the next day. AS for
punctuation, he gave his own. But
he insisted on loyalty, and he al
ways got it from his official fam
lily. Every time any one of us did
anything we always thought, How
is this going to affect him."
Miss Tully has had only two
jobs in her life. If you leave out
the summer she worked as CASH
ier in a neighborhood restaurant
when she was girl on Staten Is
land. She really launched her ca
reer at 10. when she was told by
the mother superior of New York S
Grace Secretarial Institute that
Bishop Hayes. later cardinal, at
that time chaplain bishop of the
Army and Navy, needed a secre-
tary.
Young Grace took the job, held
1t for 10 years, and learned to turn
out mail that looked like a car
dinal's mail" One of her duties
was to read back the sermons
which his eminence dictated. She
was required to preach them
with warmth and expression"
Natural Interest in Politics.
She made the transition from
church to state in 1923 when she
rolled up her sleeves for the DEM
ocratic National Committee, dur
ing the Smith campaign. She
came by her interest in politics
naturally. since her mother. a
MY PLACE TO STAND
BY Bentz Plagemann. (Farrar,
Straus G. Co.; s2.75.J
With each day bringing it's toll
Of new polio cases, Mr.. PLACE
mann's record of his conquest of
the disease has a grim timeliness.
But it has much more than that.
1t is a deeply honest and moving
account of the havoc this terrible
aff1iction works on both mind and
body, one which should bring un-
derstanding to other victims and
enlightenment to their families.
Stricken while serving as q
pharmacists mate aboard an LIST
in the Mediterranean, Mr.. PLACE
mann was expected to die. He
was flown to a Navy hospital in
Florida, where the apathy and in
adequacy of the staff fired his vio-
lent unhappiness. But with re-
moval to Warm Springs the weak
tears Of self-pity gave way to a
sense of re-entering life with q
newly awakened appreciation of
its true values. Mr.. Plagemann' s
description of President Roosevelt
amid those who could best under
stand his fortitude is one of the
finest extant. The patient re-
turned to their routine with a new
dedication when he had gone. AS
for the author, his own triumph
came with a realization that you
are somehow outside of time and
matter, allied with eternity, some
thing that must have existed be-
fore your body was. and will
surely exist afterward If damage
to your body cannot alter you."
Both as the record of return
to spiritual and bodily health (Mr.
Plagemann recaptured his lost
faith during his ordeaD my Place
to Stand" is a splendid testimony
of mans ability to conquer a
vicious disease and his own spirit
as we'll. M. Meg.