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Nine months after John Kennedy became President, an old boyhood friend joined him in Washington, taking up residence in the massive British embassy on Massachusetts Avenue. As Her Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S., David Ormsby Gore, who became Lord Harlech on the death of his father last year, had nearly everything in his favor: a wealth of international experience, an easygoing charm, a beautiful wife, and a long intimacy with the Kennedy family dating back to Father Joe's own ambassadorial days in London. Able to pick up the phone and get instantly through to Kennedy...
...viewpoint nicely balanced between business and show business. He bridges the large gulf between the accountant and the tousled genius. He can figure a budget within 5%, and when he gets it figured, he knows what the money is being spent on. He began learning his business during his boyhood as a movie theater usher in C'eveland, and at 21 he became vice president for advertising and promotion at a nightclub called the Mayfair Casino. The bands who played there were booked in by MCA, which then literally was the Music Corporation of America, run by Jules Stein...
...apprising them of' the arrival of 'Evelyn Waugh, English writer.' The entire small corps of officers, shaven and polished, turned out to greet me each bearing a bouquet." His childhood in Edwardian England he remembers as idyllic, "an even glow of pure happiness." His memories of boyhood are vividly visual, from his nursery wallpaper (a pattern of medieval figures) to the beauties of the countryside and villages, which were rapidly being destroyed by urbanization in "the grim cyclorama of spoliation which surrounded all English experience in this century." He remembers loving the old-fashioned lighting, he even...
Early in life, Ellison developed a passion for music, black and white, classical and jazz. He was fired with ambition by a wonderful integrated assortment of boyhood heroes: jazzmen and scientists, cowboys and Renaissance artists. He read voraciously, thanks to a Negro who tried to integrate the Oklahoma City public library. The city fathers were so shaken that they hastily opened a separate Negro library and stacked it with every book they could lay their hands...
...Hold Your Potatoes." On through the day, Lyndon and Lady Bird moved, almost ritualistically, as in a stately saraband. To the old Johnson homestead they went, to reminisce a while about Lyndon's boyhood and to sit in the porch swing. Later they visited at the ranch of A. W. (Judge) Moursund, Lyndon's old friend and trustee of his financial interests. The President sat slumped in a living-room chair for a while and watched the election returns on television. Then, by helicopter, he and his party flew to Austin's Driskill Hotel, waded into...