Helen Elizabeth Grimes

HELEN ELIZABETH GRIMES, daughter of JANE MARCIA ALDEN and GEORGE SUTHERLAND GRIMES, was born October 25, 1899 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota,¹⁹⁸⁷ and died March 19, 1976 in Washington, District of Columbia.⁶⁵¹⁸

She married (1) AUGUSTUS VAN DEVENTER on January 3, 1923 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee, Oklahoma.^{5331, 2330}

She married (2) ERNEST KIDDER LINDLEY on October 5, 1929 in Washington, District of Columbia.⁵³³⁰ He was born July 14, 1889,⁷⁷⁶⁸ and died June 30, 1979 in Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia.⁶⁵¹⁹

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Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, January 7, 1923⁵³³¹

Miss Betty Grimes, National Diving Champion, Weds New Jersey Man

Minneapolis Girl Is Bride of Augustus Van Deventer at Okmulgee, Okla.

Miss Betty Grimes of Minneapolis, national high diving champion, and a participant in the Olympic games in the summer of 1920, was married in Okmulgee, Okla., Wednesday, to Augustus Van Deventer of Plainfield, N. J., according to an announcement made by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Grimes, 4400 Beard avenue south, late yesterday.

The marriage took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Rea. The newlyweds will make their home in Sapulpa, Okla.

Miss Grimes was graduated from the University of Minnesota in the class of 1920, and belongs to Delta Gamma sorority. Following her graduation she sailed for Europe with the American Olympic team for the Olympic contests in Belgium.

Minneapolis Star, October 5, 1929⁵³³⁰

MRS. BETTY VAN DEVENTER MARRIES ERNEST LINDLEY

Mr. and Mrs. George Sutherland Grimes, 2020 Girard avenue S., announce the marriage of their daughter, Mrs. Betty S. Van Deventer, to Ernest Lindley of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Lindley were married at the home of the bride's brother, J. A. Grimes, Washington, D. C., this afternoon. They will make their home in New York city.

Mrs. Van Deventer was formerly Miss Betty Grimes of this city who was active in women's athletics circles, being a swimmer of note.

New York Times, May 20, 1976⁶⁵¹⁸

Betty Grimes Lindley, 76, Ex-Aide to Mrs. Roosevelt

Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 19—Betty Grimes Lindley, long active in political and civic affairs in New York City and Washington and the wife of Ernest K. Lindley, writer and columnist, died yesterday in a nursing home here after a long illness. She was 76 years old.

Mrs. Lindley served for several years as the radio agent for Eleanor Roosevelt. She also was executive assistant to Mrs. Roosevelt in 1943 when the First Lady and Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia headed the Civilian Defense Administration. Mrs. Lindley was co-author of a book, "A New Deal for Youth," with her husband, who was chief of the Washington bureau of Newsweek magazine from 1937 to 1961.

Mrs. Lindley graduated from the University of Minnesota. She was the women's national high-diving champion in 1920.

Surviving, besides her husband, are three sons, Jonathan, Christopher and Mark; a sister, and seven grandchildren.

Washington Post, July 2, 1979⁶⁵¹⁹

Commentator, Author, Columnist Ernest K. Lindley Dies

Ernest K. Lindley, 79, a noted Washington correspondent for many years and then an official of the State Department, died Saturday at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had cancer.

Mr. Lindley was in the vanguard of the wave of journalists attracted to Washington to cover the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had covered Roosevelt when he was governor of New York for the old New York Herald Tribune and the newspaper sent him here when Roosevelt was elected President.

He soon established a reputation among his colleagues and members of Congress and the administration as the leading authority in the press corps on Roosevelt and his policies. He was the author of several books on the subject.

In 1937, Mr. Lindley left The Herald Tribune to become the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek magazine, which was organized that year. A year later, he joined The Washington Post as a reporter and columnist. He was hired by Eugene L. Meyer, then the publisher of the newspaper, because of his expertise on the New Deal. Mr. Lindley remained on The Post until 1943 and on Newsweek until 1961.

He then became a special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council. He remained at State until 1969, when he received the department's Superior Service Award.

In his years with Newsweek, Mr. Lindley wrote a weekly column, "Washington Tides," in addition to running the bureau. His daily columns for The Post were syndicated.

He found time, too, to work as a commentator on network radio and, later television programs and to write for various national magazines other than Newsweek and for encyclopedias. He traveled widely for Newsweek and was a frequent lecturer on international affairs at the National War College and elsewhere.

During World War II, Mr. Lindley organized a group of veteran reporters that met frequently with Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, and Administrator Ernest J. King, the chief of naval operations, and other high officials for briefings on sensitive military and diplomatic matters.

The famous "Lindley rule," which still is invoked at times by officials in their dealings with the press, was much used in those encounters. Under the rule, information gleaned from officials may be published, but without attribution to any source. Reporters often use such vague attributions as "government officials" or "unimpeachable sources" to lend authenticity to their stories. Under the Lindley rule," even these advices are prohibited. The reporter must state the information on his own authority.

Mr. Lindley was born in Richmond, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, where his father was a professor of philosophy, served in the Army in World War I, and graduated from the University of Idaho. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and spent three years at Oxford University in England.

His career in journalism dated from his college days as a campus correspondent for West Coast and Idaho newspapers. He also filled in at one juncture for the editor of the Moscow Idaho, Star Journal. His first full-time newspaper job was on the Wichita Daily Beacon.

In 1924, Mr. Lindley joined the staff of The New York World as a reporter and political writer. He moved to The Herald Tribune in 1931 when the world ceased publication.

Mr. Lindley's prolific literary production included the first book about Roosevelt, "Franklin D. Roosevelt — A Career in Progressive Democracy." He also wrote "The Roosevelt Revolution — first Phase," "Half Way with Roosevelt" and "How War Came — U.S. Foreign Policy from the Fall of France to Pearl Harbor." With the former Mary Grimes, whom he married in 1929 and who died in 1976, he wrote "The New Deal for Youth."

Mr. Lindley was a winner of many journalistic awards and was the holder of several honorary degrees. In 1974, he was elected a scholar by the Distinguished Alumni Service Award Club of Indiana University. This carried with it a grant for the preparation of Mr. Lindley's memoirs, which he then undertook to write.

Survivors include his wife, the former Jean Rasch Gehman, of the home in Washington; three sons, Jonathan, of Alexandria, Christopher, of Rochester, N.Y., and Mark, of St. Louis; a brother, Stanley of Michigan, and seven grandchildren.