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...look at me while I sat on the toilet." L.B.J. badgered him to come closer so that they could talk. "Then began the most ludicrous scene I had ever witnessed. Instead of simply turning around and walking over to me, he kept his face away from me and walked backward, one rickety step at a time. It certainly made me wonder how that man had made it so far in the world." Johnson was obsessed with Robert Kennedy, whom he considered as skilled and ruthless as himself in acquiring and exercising power. L.B.J. resisted all the Kennedy supporters who importuned...
Just who do you think you are? Do you realize that you have just taken ten giant leaps backward in the struggle of women to be recognized as persons? Please confine yourselves to issues you can handle...
...returns. Some writers flop so badly on radio and television that they may even hurt sales. Irv Kupcinet, who conducts the Chicago-based Kup's Show, will even call publishers to suggest they cut short tours that he believes will be unproductive. He explains: "Some authors give this backward projection, and I tell the publisher they are only hurting themselves." Promotional travel usually gives the biggest boost to the biggest books. According to Esther Margolis, vice president for publicity of Bantam Books, the paperback sales of Peter Benchley's Jaws doubled, from 4 million to 8 million, after...
...would supervise its management. One immediate change at the New York store was the installation of Ralph Destine, a former managing director of Cartier Ltd. in the Far East, as president. Over the years, says Destine, differences between the Paris and New York stores resulted in "one company looking backward, perhaps too far back, and the other forward, perhaps too far forward." From now on, he says, Cartier New York will be managed "by a Cartier Paris philosophy...
...Berenson, Carol Charming, Mrs. Gianni Agnelli, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Lauren Bacall, Raquel Welch, Ali MacGraw, Mrs. William Mc-Cormick Blair Jr., Mrs. Charles Revson, Liza Minnelli, Lee Radziwill and her sister Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who, at her first husband's inauguration, wore a Halston's pillbox hat-backward. Despite Jackie's mistake, the hat became a rage and helped make Halston famous...