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...smile could raise welts, and her dinner-table conversation regularly drew blood, some as blue as her own. She dismissed her cousin Franklin Roosevelt as "two-thirds mush and one-third Eleanor." When Columnist Joseph Alsop, another cousin, attributed grass-roots support to Wendell Willkie, the Republican hope to topple F.D.R. in 1940, she said yes, "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs." It was she who demolished Thomas E. Dewey, the 1944 G.O.P. candidate, with the gibe that "he looks like the little man on the wedding cake...
...women, two blacks (one is the chairman, Roger Wilkins) and an Asian American, a response to past charges that it was an all-white, all-male establishmentarian club. Robert Christopher, secretary of the board, insists that the days are long past when someone like the legendary New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock could strong-arm members into awarding a prize to a young politician named John Kennedy. But the suspicion of closed-door politicking endures. "My impression is that there is a fair amount of horse trading," says an editor whose paper is not a frequent winner...
...wide as any in Washington. Sit long enough in his law office on New Hampshire Avenue and you will hear him deal with a dazzling cross section of Washington's notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper Columnist Robert Novak. Says George Christian, press secretary in Lyndon Johnson's White House: "One of Strauss's many strengths is that although he's a good Democrat, he can also be bipartisan when the situation requires it." Perhaps Speaker Wright had something like that in mind when he offered this toast...
...enter the country, he would have to return the billions of dollars he allegedly stole from the treasury. Though negotiations are still under way and an imminent Marcos homecoming is unlikely, many Aquino supporters are chagrined by the President's willingness to countenance her enemy's return. Wrote Columnist Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc in the Philippine Daily Inquirer: "Has Cory Aquino been lured away . . . by the promise of dollars and cents...
...local political columnist sarcastically calls him "Michael the Good." Many of his supporters refer to him as "the Duke." If it weren't so shocking it would be almost funny--that this short, homely, boring, geek of a governor named Michael Stanley Dukakis is the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination...