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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostelry the Broadmoor. Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!", the rate on the bridal suite immediately was tripled, and the arriving oil-rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession...
When it comes to hitting a baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers are as gentle a bunch of fellows as ever donned knickers. They have just three .300 hitters on the roster-an odd lot made up of a grizzled player-coach (Jim Gilliam), a substitute outfielder (Lou Johnson) and a pitcher (Don Drysdale). As a team, the Dodgers have the fourth lowest batting average (.247) in the National League, have hit fewer home runs (37) than anybody in either league. Worse yet, they have, in three months, suffered 29 "disabling" injuries -meaning that each was bad enough...
Murder Most Foul. "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up . . ." begins Margaret Rutherford, auditioning for a provincial repertory company with a daffy, definitive recitation of Robert Service's Yukon ballad, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She has no sooner finished than an actor drops dead at her feet. Though the plot has it that the poor chap was done in by poison, it appears more likely that he died of envy, for an act like Rutherford's is hard to follow...
When Mary sends flowers to someone, it is likely to be quite a bunch. In April, as "a tiny gesture" to Lady Bird Johnson's campaign to beautify the cap ital, she sent 10,300 azalea bushes down to Washington and threw in 150 dog wood trees for good measure. Last fall m memory of her friend Susan Wagner' late wife of New York City's mayor' she planted 40 flowering cherry trees on Park Avenue-in addition to the 44 magnolia trees she had already put there and the 400 other trees...
...aide, Mrs. Lucianne Cummings, a blonde Washington public-relations consultant, stuffed the letter with a bunch of campaign souvenirs into a closet. Coming across it a few months ago and realizing the value of a letter between a once and a present First Lady, she turned it over to Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton to sell at auction. A year ago, Hamilton had sold a particularly poignant letter from Jackie to an unknown Englishman for a record $3,000; he thought this one would bring at least...