Judy Garland, Wernher von Braun, Supreme Court justices, major politicians—there was nothing quite like Perle Mesta’s parties ...

"He first contacted Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, to offer her one of the original Teddy Bears if she would pose with it," says the Smithsonian. Longworth apparently ...

Then there was Alice Roosevelt Longworth—the strong-willed, sharp-tongued daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt and the wife of Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House. A throw pillow in her ...