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...courtesy to a former prospective occupant, the White House switchboard has been handling any calls for Richard Nixon that come to NA 8-1414. Kennedy Administration telephone operators would ring Nixon's unlisted number, pass along the message, or connect the caller if the family approved. The service is now at an end. Nixon has changed his telephone number without telling the White House where he can be reached...
Time was when Harvard's presidential jokes concerned majestic Abbott Lawrence Lowell, whose secretary once told a caller: "I'm sorry, sir. President Lowell has gone to Washington today, to call on Mr. Taft." With President Kennedy (Harvard '40) taking office this week, Washington has a whole new Harvard joke book-not boffo Broadway jokes, but subtle, like for the initiates...
...haired 36. In 1951, just after her divorce from Ankara State Orchestra Conductor Ferit Alnar, Ayhan caught the eye of Menderes at a luncheon party. She was then a svelte 27, he a handsome and roving-eyed 52. In no time at all Premier Menderes was such a frequent caller at the singer's apartment that other tenants grew grumpily accustomed to being stopped and searched by bodyguards. Ayhan's apartment was kept plentifully stocked with Menderes' favorite Black Sea caviar and raki. For favors rendered, Menderes presented Ayhan with a black-lacquered American-style...
About dinnertime I answered the phone to hear, "This is a presidential election poll. As of now, which candidate would you vote for, Nixon or Kennedy?" I asked the caller to name the organization she represented, and the reply was, "A presidential poll." When I asked which one, the reply was, "I don't know...
...simple two-step, the dance lends itself to any music with a steady ? beat -and allows for innumerable variations: after the basic Madison step is completed, the caller can ask for the Big M (see cut), for a snatch of the Charleston, for some cha cha cha, or for the step known as "the Jackie Gleason" (a broad parody of Gleason's away-we-go shuffle). When a pattern is finished, he may call: "Erase it," i.e., repeat the pattern in reverse. The variations often have a sports flavor, as in "the Wilt Chamberlain Hook," in which the dancer...