Camera-Shy Roosevelt

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. returned from Europe last September, newsreel cameramen cornered him on deck. He ducked, grinned, protested: "No, honestly, I'm camera shy." When cameramen in a boat edged up to the shell in which Roosevelt Jr. was practicing with the Harvard freshman crew one week later, he did not grin. Barked he:

"I'll punch you in the nose. And I really mean it. . . ."

The Press might have observed that here was one Roosevelt who genuinely did not want to have his picture in the papers. Publicity was necessary to his parents, and acceptable to his sister and brothers. But to Franklin Jr., who sought the easy camaraderie of other Harvard freshmen, which he could not have as a publicized personage, it was anathema.

Last week at some wrestling matches in Philadelphia. Arena, a slight, dark Public Ledger photographer named Donald Corvelli spotted Franklin Roosevelt Jr. & party in the tenth row. During some excitement caused by one cf the wrestlers being hurled from the ring, Cameraman Corvelli popped his flashbulb, aimed his lens at Junior Roosevelt. The latter saw him, ducked forward, but too late. Grinning, Cameraman Corvelli trotted toward an exit. In a flash Roosevelt Jr., boiling mad, was out of his seat and at the cameraman's heels. He over-took him in the lobby, spilled him to the floor, jumped up & down on the camera. Police intervened, companions led Junior Roosevelt away.

Still grinning, Photographer Corvelli raced to his office. Junior Roosevelt had forgotten to go after the film plate, which was tucked safely in Corvelli's pocket during the scuffle.

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