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...summer, when the group has chartered a boat in the Caribbean, Nick's wife, a neurotic photographer, has been replaced by Ginny the stewardess (Bess Armstrong), who is pretty and sensible but who rocks their boat with her enthusiastic lovemaking. Not only does it keep the other couples awake all night, it makes them wonder where the magic of their marriages has gone...
Eleanor and Franklin had done it. Bess and Harry too, along with every First Couple since. So, in keeping with a four-decade tradition, Jimmy and Rosalynn agreed to pose for Yousuf Karsh's camera. The Carters, says the famed Ottawa lensman, were "very cordial, warm and cooperative" as subjects. So was Amy's pet, Misty Malarkey, a copycat who insisted on being included in Rosalynn's portraits, taken in the Yellow Oval Room. The President, who had generously allowed two hours for his session in the Oval Office, proved especially understanding when asked to pose again...
...Thanksgiving, Daughters Patty and Maureen, Maureen's fiance Dennis Revell, Brother Neil, 71, a retired advertising executive, and Neil's wife Bess came to the ranch for a turkey dinner. The weather was sparkling and the ocean view stunning from vantage points along the hills. Said Reagan: "It's very easy to talk about Thanksgiving when surrounded by this type of beauty. I'm thankful, very grateful. Maybe some time in the day everyone will find time to appreciate what we have in this country...
...Newley's nightclub act than for a musical comedy and Sellon's delivery of the songs bear ugly shades of Caesar's Palace. The writers reach the lowest depths of their lyrical abyss with "Feelin' Good," a number that sounds like it was lifted from some bastardized Porgy and Bess. In a semicomatose performance, Adam Finkel as The Hobo sings "Dragonfly out in the sun/You know what I mean/Butterflies havin' fun/You know what I mean...It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...
...winning the Senate nomination last week, she handily beat four opponents, including former New York City Mayor John Lindsay. Her principal competition was Bess Myerson, 55, who had the backing of New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Governor Hugh Carey and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Myerson mounted a $1.3 million TV campaign, financed mostly by herself and her wealthy friends, in an attempt to convince New Yorkers that her experience as New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs from 1969 to 1974 qualified her for the Senate. But Holtzman raised $1.2 million, mostly from small contributions from...