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...also meant taking full advantage of the patronage at the President's disposal.* Kennedy is fond of Teddy Roosevelt's injunction to "speak softly and carry a big stick," and he applies it to domestic as well as foreign affairs. Since taking office, his soft words have been used more often than his stick: day after day, congressional leaders have dropped by the White House for chats-and exposure to the effortless Kennedy charm. But he threw the full weight of his prestige behind House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the fight over the Rules Committee, personally calling...
...compact 5 ft. 8 in., 170 lbs., Tokle smokes and drinks ("It hasn't hurt me yet"), credits his longevity as a jumper to his trade: "As a carpenter, I get eight hours of exercise a day." To strengthen his legs and ankles, the tireless Tokle is fond of turning a barrel on its side, hopping on top and running at full tilt while it spins beneath him ("You ought to try it sometime...
Five years later, Olga was freed in the amnesty following Stalin's death. She returned to Moscow and Pasternak. In her absence, Pasternak had supported her two children, and he became especially fond of Irina, regarding her as his adopted daughter. Olga moved to the writers' suburb of Peredelkino. With Daughter Irina, she took a cottage near the dacha occupied by Pasternak and his wife Zinaida. Olga acted as Pasternak's literary agent, typed his manuscripts and helped correct his proofs...
...general, the nation's newspapers bade Ike a fond and sentimental farewell. "Dwight Eisenhower retires with the affection, respect and confidence of the nation and much of the world," said the Dallas Morning News. "No other man in universal history amassed so much influence or power at one time without taking the one more step: assumption of an imperial diadem or the trappings of dictatorship ... It behooves [President Kennedy] to remember, as we think he does, that neither the U.S. nor the rest of the world is through with Dwight Eisenhower." In Los Angeles, the Republican Times called...
...dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia, as everyone had a last fond sit on the zebra-stripe upholstery. Beaming throughout was John Perona, El Morocco's owner, and Journal-American Society Columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini) pronounced the eulogy, quoting Lucius Beebe: "El Morocco and Perona are the products of emergent evolution. Nobody foresaw that through the agency of a constantly diminishing...