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Alarm Clock

Technologically Impaired Husband decides to lend Rather Important House Guest his state-of-the-art alarm clock (set alarm hand to hour required, pull out button, grope wildly and thump button to halt buzzer,) so that R.I.H.G. doesn’t miss his very early flight back home. T.I.H. proceeds to sleep soundly until 4 a.m. when he suddenly falls out of bed and hurls himself at the house phone to call guest and make sure the alarm has gone off. It has. T.I.H. then…

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 – Interview with David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandm?re – a personal history of Eleanor Roosevelt
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 - Interview with David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandm?re - a personal history of Eleanor Roosevelt

You have written a book about your grand mother, Eleanor Roosevelt? What inspired you to do so? This is a question I asked myself over and over as I first considered writing Grandm?re. After all, there had been numerous biographies and books written about her life and work, so what could I possibly offer that was different? To my knowledge no one had written about Eleanor Roosevelt from quite the same personal perspective as I could, as one of…

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