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Just the other night Lady Bird Johnson went to the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, the first member of the First Family to do so in 19 years. She made a sweeping entrance with lissome Mrs. Anthony Bliss, wife of the Met's president, that had wide-eyed bystanders glomming the glamour, and Lady Bird was still drawing stares and applause as she returned to her box for the third act. As she smiled and acknowledged the attention, she started to sit down, then-ploop-she disappeared. The audience gasped, but quickly relaxed as she bobbed up unhurt and laughing...
Perhaps it is just that Americans have no sense of the sublime. "My kite rises to celestial regions," wrote a 9th century monk. "My soul enters the abode of bliss." On Formosa, the ninth day of the ninth moon is the Day of Ascending Heights, a holiday in honor of kites. In Japan, kite flying is so popular that it was once legislated out of existence, so that people could keep their minds on their work. And nowhere is kiting pursued with more passion than in Thailand, where legend has it that a young lover found his lady fair...
...house wife from Leonia, N.J., spent 800 hours commuting by bus to Morningside Heights in upper Manhattan for four years to get a degree enabling her to continue graduate studies at Columbia's Russian Institute. Even the jet set touches down at G.S. Ex-Actress Jo Ann Bliss, wife of the president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, expects a degree in art history next year. Top student in the class of 1961 was Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, sister of Washington's Bundy brothers, who won awards in history, philosophy, and social science; Mrs. Auchincloss dropped out of Radcliffe when...
...defense the team relies on four veterans who got plenty of experience in prep school. Dick Loomis, Dave Davis, Bliss Forbush, and Steve Neubert have provided pretty good protection for goalie Norton all year. Last week, Lentz even moved Neubert up to attack to add more aggression to the offense...
Skidmore spent three years as a Bliss Fellow, travelling in South America, Mexico, and Spain, and doing research on the recent political and social history of Brazil. After graduating from Denison College, in 1954, he spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...