Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Oct. 16, 1943

Mrs. Roosevelt thanks readers for remembering her birthday

Thelma and Lowell made no diary entry today except to list expenses. In a far-ranging “My Day” column, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt thanked readers who had been so kind as to remember her birthday on October 11 — she was 59 — and went on to write about topics as varied as saving waste paper (there was a war-time shortage), the hand-crafts of Native Amer…