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...soldier and an Ethiopian girl, each carved in ivory. Jacqueline Kennedy, making her first ceremonial appearance since the birth and death of her infant son, presented the Emperor's granddaughter, Princess Ruth Desta, 33, with a leatherbound guidebook to the White House, three art books and a vermeil dresser...
...mental ailments, died of cancer at 47. The boy was then twelve. He was thereafter reared by an eccentric uncle, William Green Yerger, who dabbled at farming his family's remaining cotton acres. Mostly, the uncle liked to catch catfish. Sometimes he just stuffed the fish into a dresser drawer at home and left them there...
...sets of peaks and troughs and daily routines. A fairly ambitious Chestertown white youth, for example, might plan to become a doctor or lawyer or store owner as a way of growing wealthy and serving his community. Young Negroes, similarly ambitious, aspire to the positions of undertaker or hair dresser or caterer. Traditionally no young Negro who has stayed in this community has been permitted to hold a professional job, in the white man's sense of the word. As a consequence the most ambitious young people develop skills either in positions where white men will accept them, such...
...some ways, though. Seltzer and Vail are very much alike. Each is a natty dresser. Each is concerned primarily with his paper's editorial content rather than its business operation. Each is an avid Cleveland booster. And each has a healthy respect for the other. "I happen to believe Louis Seltzer has a lot on the ball." says Vail. Seltzer returns the compliment, though somewhat more subtly. "My catalyst is competition and collision." says he. "When I'm pushed hardest, that's when I feel best. I sure as hell feel real good right...
...specialty shoppes will have gone into assembling the proper holiday wardrobe. And once on the decks of the gleaming cruise ship, out beneath the swaying palms or on the beach under the languishing tropical sun, her clothes will almost surely prove this season's lady traveler the wildest dresser since...