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...They are swinging wildly," said President Johnson last week in an apt description of the latest, desperate meat-ax assaults by the Communist Viet Cong. With the monsoon season well under way, the Reds were gambling on the combined effects of weather and surprise to nullify the superior power of the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies...
...appeal. Elsa Maxwell defined it as being "so unbelievably charming and thoughtful that you are off guard before you know it." Zsa Zsa Gabor said he was "a gentleman who should have been born a hundred years ago-this century is too fast for him, too cold." Men were apt to dismiss his allure as a capacity for taking infinite pains in the pursuit of pleasure: having a match flaming by the time a woman's cigarette touched her lips, for example, or being, as his old Paris nickname of "Toujours Prêt" suggested, ever ready to supply...
Today most of the mansions stand as museums of past glory and hors d'oeuvres are apt to be served by caterers rather than servants, but third-and fourth-generation scions still keep the banners flying high. On a sunny day at Bailey's Beach, 15 Cushings can be seen at one time, flanked by Drexels, Auchin-closses and Van Alens. Neither high taxes, lack of servants, nor the Newport Jazz Festival can drive them out from behind their wrought-iron gates and brick walls...
...days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport's most influential regulars are no longer rich themselves, they are apt to screen newcomers more on the basis of family or behavior rather than wealth. Recalling that Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, one of the doyennes of Newport society in the good old days, once delighted her guests by filling her ballroom with live butterflies, a young Newport matron said wistfully...
...Confessions of a Young Man, George Moore observed that an apt quotation could put him on the trail of a book that would bring him intellectual advancement. For many, such a "book" is TIME. Consider this sampling of quotes from the current issue...