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Alice Sycamore (Rosemary Harris) that her native clan is prodigiously eccentric until Tony Kirby (Clayton Corzatte) of the Wall Street Kirbys proposes to her. The Kirby family crest is the stuffed shirt, but it is lofted in surrender to the free-souled Sycamores after a hilariously impromptu dinner and an even more impromptu night in jail...
...Davis is short (5 ft. 5 in.), nervous, the color of bittersweet chocolate; leggy, lissome May Britt could be no blonder, remains serene no matter how large the crisis. Somehow the marriage worked. The Davises had one child, adopted a second, then a third. He pulled away from the Clan, hasn't appeared with them since the filming of Robin and the 7 Hoods in 1964. The drinking went down, the smoking went from three packs of cigarettes a day to one, and to complete the change, he tried something new-acting...
...while his retreat from the brink of embarrassment will be warmly remembered as an act of high courage. Outside the Senate, which is not likely to confine Teddy Kennedy's ambitions indefinitely, the Morrissey affair may be remembered as a negative entry in the record book of a clan that made great capital of the pursuit of excellence...
Nonetheless, argued Massachusetts' junior Senator last week, the Kennedy clan's longtime political trusty has a more substantial qualification for the federal bench in Boston. In Ted Kennedy's words, Frank is "absolutely in corruptible...
...Like a Governess." Frank Morrissey got there by taking what in Boston was the surest route to the top of his chosen career. He made himself endlessly useful to the Kennedy clan. If he lacked the depth or background for knighthood in the Irish Mafia, Teetotaler Morrissey had the unquestioning loyalty, energy and discretion to become a prized sergeant at arms...