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...Nixon. For the holidays they have peopled the place with choirs, Bob Hope, the Apollo 12 astronauts and more than 6,000 other Americans, renowned and unknown. To fuel those guests, the kitchens turned out 25,000 cookies, 1,130 gallons of fruit punch and an identical quantity of eggnog. Nobody in Washington can remember a more festive White House Christmas...
Etiquette & Close Support. In the log he noted that Arnheiter once drank spiked eggnog aboard, and kept a pitcher of brandy in the officers' mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter...
...Then there is the matter of vegetables. Will asparagus be cheaper than brussels sprouts, or will carrots be cheaper still? When it comes to making such decisions, McDonnell's favorite tool is his slide rule. For a Christmas party, he once figured out that twelve ounces of eggnog per person was precisely the right amount to assure conviviality without too much hilarity?and ordered the whisky accordingly. The vice president who asks for a third drink on the company airplane (a Jet-Star made by rival Lockheed) is quietly reported to Mr. Mac himself...
Never High Noon. "A painters life is determined by daylight," says Hurd, who knocks back an unvarying breakfast of eggnog, toast and coffee at sunup, then goes riding across the juniper-knobby hills. He may dismount, whip out a tiny watercolor set and sketch a bit of his domain. These glimpses are pulled together in his studio, where Hurd toils in the meticulous technique of egg tempera. The results, recently on view at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and opening last week in San Francisco's California Palace of the Legion of Honor...
...houses. Lyndon joined them for a puppet show in the East Room, was greeted by one boy with an airy "Hi, Johnson"; later, he escorted them to the Blue Room to see an 18-ft. balsam fir Christmas tree, thence to the State Dining Room for ice cream and eggnog...