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Chief among these witnesses was White House Aide Walter Jenkins, who seemed to have an immunity from, as well as an aversion to, being questioned. During the Baker hearings, Jenkins was first mentioned by Witness Don Reynolds, a Silver Spring, Md., insurance broker who shared commissions with Baker. Reynolds told the committee that in 1957, when he was trying to sell Lyndon Johnson, then Senate majority leader, a $100,000 life insurance policy, Jenkins had put the arm on him to buy $1,208 of advertising time on Lady Bird Johnson's TV station in Texas. In a written...
Marriage Revealed. Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, 34, brother of former King Peter II, now a London insurance broker; and German-born Princess Kira of Leiningen, 33; he for the second time; at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, "some time last year," in a ceremony that the publicityshy prince refrained from announcing until eight days after Kira bore him a son March...
...lines, and Gitter carries the weight superbly. Slightly hunched, his mustache twitching with delight at his guile, Gitter simply oozes charm, duplicity and cunning. At the prospect of murder, his eyebrows wiggle and his voice rises to an ecstatic pitch. He combines the avariciousness of a Jewish pawn-shop broker with the greasiness of a Carmine DeSapio...
Sarson is not content with victory; he knows how to make corruption complete. Full of magnanimity, he visits the Vasses and hints to Andrew how he, too, can make a killing. No sooner has Sarson left than Andrew is on the phone to his broker, all business and no principle. His wife finally flares with passion for him. Another Sarson is in the making...
...burden of The Little Girls is that those who would excavate the tells of childhood had better dig alone. Sheikie, "the famous child toe-dancer" of St. Agatha's, has degenerated into Sheila Artworth, a real estate broker's wife whose hair is now bluer than her blood. Mumbo, the skinny, frizzy-headed intellectual of the trio, has ballooned into Miss Clare Burkin-Jones, the burly, beturbaned boss of a London gift shop. But these distortions are nothing compared with the heightened powers of bitchery the little girls have acquired...