Word: auchincloss
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...itch, and pursue exotic and audacious hobbies. And maybe that is why, when our Modern Living department got intrigued by the growing hobby of sky diving, two of the best sources for the story turned out to be at nearby desks. Sport Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum and Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss (whose previous experience in the heavens includes 17 years as TIME'S Religion editor) had decided to try sky diving for themselves. Last week each jumped from a single-engine plane, parachuted 2,500 ft. to earth in 21 minutes...
...Esquire, Playwright Gore Vidal, a dilettante politician, concedes re-election in 1964 to President Kennedy, then hands 1968 to Brother Bobby (over Nelson Rockefeller). With that out of the way, Vidal, whose stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, is also Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, lets Bobby have it. "There are flaws in Bobby's person hard to disguise," he writes, with no intent to disguise them. "For one thing, it will take a public relations genius to make him appear lovable. His obvious characteristics are energy, vindictiveness, and a simple-mindedness about human motives which may yet bring him down...
...Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss...
Lanin played no twists, but Mrs. Jacob Javits, wife of New York's Republican Senator, nevertheless twisted to a fast fox trot with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Herbert Klotz. Lyndon Johnson danced with Jackie's mother, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John McClellan, better known for their oratory than for their ballroom skills, jostled about. Equally at ease were such non-Washington types as the Alfred G. Vanderbilts, the Henry Ford IIs, the William Paleys. and Mrs. Gary Cooper...
...Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss...