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Much of it was pure corn, or just plain tasteless-as in Los Angeles, when he referred to "the man who watches over us in heaven this afternoon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy." At one point, he had talked so long that Lady Bird sent a note to the podium telling him it was time to stop. In Pittsburgh, people in the back rows began sneaking out halfway through his address. In Milwaukee, Lyndon missed his lunch, made up for it by stopping at William Balsmider's grocery and asking for "a little hunk of baloney" and half a dozen peppermint...
...Last Word. Too strict a regime, and au pairs like 21-year-old Penelope Fitzgerald, out of Ireland and now in Rome, rebel: "No one wants to be ordered around while Signora does her nails." Too lax a hand, and a goodly proportion end up more literally in the family way than the family had in mind. It was, in fact, the regular, annual arrival of 150 or so au pairs upon the doorstep of Britain's National Council for Unmarried Mothers that recently got the Home Office to issue a free pamphlet offering concisely stated advice in seven...
...life mold of Gerald Murphy hardly seemed likely to form an artist. Andover-prepped, Yale-educated, Skull and Bones-tapped, Murphy was elected the best-dressed man in the class of 1911. He was so handsome and rich that F. Scott Fitzgerald patterned Dick Diver, the golden-boy hero of Tender Is the Night, after him. For 22 years, until his retirement in 1956, Murphy was president of Fifth Avenue's chic Mark Cross leather-goods store, which his father began. Until his death last week at 76, he never bought any modern art or hung anything more than...
Lyndon B. Johnson stood before a vast sea of another President's fellow townspeople last night and told them solemnly that he intends to "carry on the spirit, the ideals and the programs begun by that son of Boston, John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
Died. Moe Gale, 65, co-founder and longtime proprietor (1926-54) of Harlem's once famed, now torn-down Savoy Ballroom, where happy feet first stomped out the Lindy Hop, Big Apple and Susie-Q, and such cats as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, and Chick Webb first strutted their swinging stuff; after a long illness; in Manhattan...