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Donated to the White House was furniture once owned by George Washington, James and Dolly Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. While rummaging through a London antique shop, a committee member found some period wallpaper decorated with Revolutionary War scenes; it will be used to paper Jackie's private dining room. Mrs. Albert Lasker gave the committee a marble bust of George Washington, and a jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany...
...gorge of Al Ricketts' readers is forever rising. Of the Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft. 4 in., 175 Ibs.) 32-year-old who chomps a long black cigar with a ferocity suggestive of filmdom's bad guy, Edward G. Robinson (see cut). The Ricketts wit is the sort that leads to lynching. As entertainment editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces newspaper in the Far East with...
...city agony columnists like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren might turn up their powdered noses at such rural dilemmas. But Janice Tate, 37, the go-getting wife of a Corsicana, Texas insurance agent, is making a name for herself with her home-style answers to the problems that perplex the folks down on the farm. Though she had no journalistic experience, blue-eyed Jan Tate decided last summer that she could fill a Lone Star need by advising Texas small-towners on their big-sounding Texas problems. Packing her three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch...
...quizzed administrative leaders, exposed corruption, and went to capital balls. Because of his partisanship to Andrew Jackson, he was fed the first official "leaks." He also became the first professional newsman to interview a President. "I went up to His Excellency," wrote Bennett after an audience with Martin Van Buren in 1839. "He held out his hand. It was soft and oily...
...Vice President John Calhoun, barred Peggy from Washington's drawing rooms. Calhoun and Jackson bitterly split, and the ensuing political brawl finally destroyed Calhoun's presidential hopes, paved the way to the White House for still another of Peggy's great and good friends: Martin Van Buren...