Family Week

While President Roosevelt was resting over the weekend, his busy brood was, as usual, making news:

P: Up before dawn on Easter morning for a sunrise service, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt Sr.. next day watched 30,000 youngsters indulge in the annual privilege of rolling eggs across the White House lawn.

P: The President's No. 1 Son & Secretary James, still making $85,000 a year from his absentee interest in a Boston insurance business (TIME, Feb. 28), was also still buffing, rebuffing, running errands, tracking errors for his father. Rumors that he had squelched Radio Commentator Boake Carter were in turn squelched. Commentator Carter was said to have complained volubly that the Administration had "got" Radiorating General Hugh Johnson for his carping, was now persecuting him. No Administration forced General Johnson from the air nine weeks ago, but cessation of the Grove Bromo Quinine broadcast, on which he appeared, did.* Counter-rumors reported that the President's secretariat, far from "persecuting" Commentator Carter, had used its influence to keep Carter's radio chain and sponsor from bearing down on him lest Carter become a martyr. Fact is, last week Commentator Carter perceptibly softened his tone toward the Administration.

P: Permission was given by FCC to Ruth Googins Roosevelt, No. 2 wife of No. 2 Son Elliott, to purchase radio station KFJZ at Fort Worth, Tex. for $57,500 (TIME, Sept. 20). Of KFJZ's 315 shares of stock, Mrs. Roosevelt will own 313. To Harry Hutchinson, active manager of the station, will go one share. To Son No. 2, who will be the station's president, secretary-treasurer: one share.

P: Franklin D. Jr., Son No. 3, continued studying at the University of Virginia Law School, passing spare time with his wife, Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, and his

Great Dane "Sandy," study time boning up on Contracts, which he failed at the end of his first term. Aside from Contracts and Common Law Actions, he has stood well in studies, has courted popularity but not publicity. Among intimates he calls his father "the old man." Last week he completed arrangements for two broadcasts--one this week, when, as an ex-Harvard oarsman, he will help Ted Husing comment on the Columbia-Navy crew race on New York's Harlem River from a bus top; the other next week as guest of Vitalis ("Just think of the word vital and add i-s") hair preparation, when he will tell how it feels to be a President's son, a du Font's husband.

P: Meanwhile at Nahant, Mass., where a sharply horizontal house is abuilding for Son No. 4 John's parent-in-law-to-be, Fiancee Anne Lindsay Clark's eleven-year-old sister Joan said of Franklin Roosevelt, to whom she refers somewhat prematurely as "Uncle Franklin": "I like him. He's smart. He said I was one American who came to Washington without a set of demands."

*General Johnson is allergic to quinine. When he wanted sick leave from West Point, he used to take a pinch of quinine, puff up like a balloon.

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