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Sheep Eyes. At the height of her modeling career, she met Movie Producer Charles Feldman (A Streetcar Named Desire, Seven Year Itch), who offered to give her a screen test. "They were paying expenses, and I was curious to see Hollywood," she says. "I memorized a few lines of English, hardly understanding a word I was saying. Somehow, I passed...
...each earned $22,500 a year at the White House, expect to make $500,000 apiece on their memoirs of the Kennedy years. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, who resigned last week, has been offered $250,000 for his J.F.K.-L.B.J. reminiscences-if he cares to write them. Lawyer Myer Feldman, who quit last March as counsel to the President, is making many times his $28,500 White House salary as a partner in a Washington law firm. And, of course, Feldman is writing his memoirs...
Indicating some Kennedy complicity, Justin Feldman, a lawyer who scheduled Kennedy's campaign, was a frequent visitor to the Capitol building, though he has never in the past had any connection with the legislature. Perhaps most telling of all was the role attributed to Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law and campaign manager. According to Newsweek, Smith made the vital calls that held the coalition together...
...announced that the long-predicted resignations of four White House aides appointed by John Kennedy had at last occurred. P. Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, two of Kennedy's closest friends, quit, as did Dr. Janet Travell, J.F.K.'s first White House physician, and Myer Feldman, his counsel. Although Johnson did not acknowlege it last week, Larry O'Brien, Kennedy's trusted aide on Capitol Hill, was set to resign as soon as Johnson's legislative proposals are launched...
...Lawyer Milton Cohen, no kin to the new chairman). Gary made a strong pitch to Lyndon Johnson to pick Cohen, who was already a member of the five-man commission, as the new chairman, and Cohen was not hurt by his close friendship with White House Special Counsel Myer Feldman. Johnson was also under pressure to pick a careerist to soften criticism of his recent appointment of conservative Republican Hamer Budge, a former Congressman from Idaho with little experience in the securities markets, as an SEC commissioner. To fill the vacancy created by Cohen's promotion, Johnson last week...