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Strolling disconsolately along London's Bond Street, Author Anthony Burgess was accosted by a friend who wanted to know why all the gloom. He was on his way, said Burgess, to dine with Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick and to see A Clockwork Orange. But why the long face, asked his friend, since the film -made from Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name-is the hit of the year? "Precisely," said Burgess. "I sold the screen rights long ago for a few hundred dollars...
...solicitations overseen by Morris Dees (a Montgomery-based wizard who made his millions in the mail-order business). There have been conventional fund-raising luncheons like one in New York City last week, where 1,350 "Business and Professional Men and Women for McGovern" laid down $25 apiece to dine on chicken and mushrooms. By far the most novel item in the McGovern moneymen's assorted bag of tricks, though, is the Presidential Club. Its members-some 3,000 thus far-sign up to make monthly contributions of as little as $10 through July 1972, when the Democrats will...
...private meetings with potential backers in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Muskie came away with pledges that would put him over his goal for the trip: $150,000. One night, 250 guests-including such luminaries as Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster and Roosevelt Grier-paid $250 each to dine at the Beverly Hills Hotel with Ed and his wife Jane...
...before Christmas," he sighed. It will be worth the wait. Sprawling over five levels, Gleason's house has 14 rooms, "at least" five bars, and a price tag of $500,000. There are only two bedrooms, but, says Gleason, "We have a lot of places to dine, to shoot pool and to drink. It's a fun house...
They became secretly engaged two years ago; since then the romance has gone on from coast to coast, from the Cox family estate in Westhampton Beach, L.I., to San Clemente, from Camp David to Key Biscayne. She has visited Cox frequently in Cambridge, Mass., where they customarily dine-surrounded by Secret Service agents-at small, inexpensive restaurants or at Lincoln's Inn, a law-school social club. Last Thanksgiving Cox asked Nixon for his daughter's hand. "Eddie was white as a sheet," Bebe Rebozo, who was standing by, recalled; her father, Tricia said, was "speechless...