Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorkers of the title are the Mannixes, members of a dwindling clan of well-to-do Jews, and their carefully tolerant gentile connections. The story begins in the 1940s at a political dinner given in honor of Judge Simon Mannix, a shrewd, large-minded man who has been "mentioned" for the Supreme Court. He is well sketched by the author, and one impudent touch is superb: Mannix has a deaf son, she relates, and thus has learned to lipread. To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix...
...surprising conclusion, considering the picture that Ethel presented while her husband was alive. In the giddy days of the New Frontier and after, she was known as the prankish clown of the clan, the exuberant athlete ready for any gambol, the nonstop, miniskirted supermom who exemplified all the headlong, slightly manic "vigah" of the Kennedys. Ethel was the hostess who presided gleefully when Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was pushed, fully clad, into the swimming pool at a Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland...
Theodore Roosevelt, though paternally of Dutch descent, was Celtic on his mother's side of the house (Bulloch), and F.D.R. was descended from the Clan Livingstone of Argyllshire. Be careful, too, in classifying Senator Edmund Muskie as Polish; several thousand Celts settled his country many centuries ago! John D. Rockefeller is Celtic through the Davison branch. True, Bundy, Diller, Coffin, are Wasps, but not McCloy and Wallace...
Divorced. By Theodore C. Sorensen, 40, former presidential speechwriter and Kennedy Clan confidant, now a top partner (along with ex-U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg) in a prestigious Manhattan Jaw firm; Sara Elbery Sorensen, 35, petite Cambridge, Mass., schoolteacher; on the uncontested grounds of cruelty and abandonment; after nearly five years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan...
Married. Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, 53, widow since 1961 of former U.S. Ambassador to Spain Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, and duchess of Philadelphia's Main Line; and Colonel Edwinston Robbins, 64, retired Air Force officer and longtime friend of the Biddle clan; in a civil ceremony performed in the Temple University chapel in Philadelphia...