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...Washington as a White House reporter and later as press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, Auntie Mameish Liz Carpenter is heading home to Austin, Texas, "to think more, to write more and to raise a little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing a bit, Carpenter, 56, cracked...
...technical jobs. As a boilerman on a passenger liner, he devised a contraption to direct sea breezes into the stifling engine room. In the mid-1920s, while tasting formal training at New York City's Art Students League, he contributed drawings of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to the National Police Gazette. Moving to Paris ("Why do I live in Paris? Because in Paris it's a compliment to be called crazy."), he began the miniature circus of wire sculptures that he kept adding to for decades...
MacDougall was recruited by a fellow Harvardman, Washington Campaign Consultant John Deardourff. With his partner Douglas Bailey, Deardourff is co-chairman of Campaign '76, the advertising arm of the President Ford Committee. The three men, closeted in a Kansas City hotel during the Republican Convention, drafted a thick tome they called simply The Plan. Its broad strategic aim: to focus attention on Ford's openness and his healing effect on the country, rather than on details of his positions on the issues...
Savage has back problems, and his place in the Crimson lineup was taken by Bob Bailey...
...There was nothing to be gained," said Senate Acting Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, pondering why Carter granted the interview in the first place. Commented Robert Bailey, 47, a bakery operator from Freemont, Calif.: "I'm a Baptist myself, and for a Bible-totin' Baptist to say those things-well, they were crude. I don't see why he had to reveal all his deep, inner thoughts-to make a national confession. It certainly doesn't make you a great...