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Among men, this year's big catch is Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who was offered eight degrees and is accepting four. The woman with the most cachet is Rosemary Park, president-elect of Barnard College, who in four successive days last week got four honorary degrees (from the University of Bridgeport, Brown, Columbia and New York University). The Peace Corps' Sargent Shriver and the Alliance for Progress' Teodoro Moscoso are much in demand; each gets three degrees this season. Bruce Catton and Scotty Reston, often honored in recent years, are again in cap and gown...
None of the others carry the cachet of the Pulitzer prizes, but even the Pulitzer with eight winners in journalism alone-and only one in each of the other categories-tends to suggest a mass anointment technique in which the accomplishments of the winners stand in some danger of losing distinction...
Merit Badges. Charities would obviously be better off if donors just sent their checks straight on to the Boys Club or whatever. But there is not much excitement in that. Explains Count Lanfranco Rasponi, a fortyish Italian bachelor whose title gives him an extra cachet as a society adviser and ball arranger: "Life at home as such is becoming extinct in certain circles. The dinner is generally catered, one always sees the same waiters and often the same menu. People are finding that they have more fun at balls...
...Jacqueline Kennedy designated the nation's first curator of White House curios, also called on a woman with personal knowledge of the subject-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 88. The appointment of Mrs. John N. Pearce, 26, a Smithsonian Institution staffer, was announced from Palm Beach, where Jackie lent especial cachet to a dinner-dance assemblage of solid-gold socialites including Mrs. Winston Guest, Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, Countess Mercedes de Bendern and Hostess Dawn Coleman (the President's replacement as escort: Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford). The First Lady, whose Southern trip was marred by reports...
...seldom shown Siegfried Kramarsky collection, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Cachet and Garden of Daubigny, which Hitler ordered sold from German museums because'they were "degenerate." ¶ Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, portrait of a Spanish prince at the age of ten, owned by the Charles S. Paysons. <¶ A whole roomful of first-class Cezannes...