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...bachelor who sports what he calls a "Renaissance beard," Capraro has spent many hours with the Fords. During one White House visit, he was with the President for nearly 20 minutes as Ford approvingly fingered some dresses Capraro had brought for Mrs. Ford and Susan. Eying a halter dress with a plunging neckline for Susan, the President jokingly asked: "Don't you think that's a bit risque?" But, says Capraro, the President never asked about prices...
...portly figure, bemedaled chest, well-groomed mustache and Vandyke beard became worldwide symbols of what was thought to be the Kremlin's conciliatory new look in the early years of the post-Stalin era. For more than a decade, he was a member of the Soviet Union's ruling elite. Yet by the time he died last week at age 79 after a long illness, Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin had become an unperson in his homeland, an ignored and forgotten figure who in his last years idled away his time strolling along Moscow's boulevards and watching chess...
...rehearsal the next night is for the chorus. Thirteen basses, tenors, altos and sopranos are huddled at one end of Shannon in a semicircle around Krag and the piano. Jay Banks, a Gilbert and Sullivan "groupie," is the accompanist. He's a small man, with brown hair, a brown beard, brown rimmed glasses, and a penchant for bright colored turtlenecks. He's a physics major at Harvard and has been involved in a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows, often unofficially. He has no part in Princess Ida but he comes to most of the rehearsals and often gives Krag...
...White House photographer has ever clicked with as much national prominence as Kennerly. Jaunty with his full beard and a racy line, the youngest member of Ford's close staff swings in and out of the Oval Office in his beat-up blue jeans and scuffed desert boots, and joshes the President...
There is no accounting for tastemakers. To Craig Claiborne (The New York Times Cook Book), "Fred Bridge is the enormously kind Mr. Pots and Pans." To James Beard (Beard on Bread), "Fred Bridge is a son of a bitch. I won't set foot in his place...