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...time. His statue stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The other side of the argument is that the daughter of an American President does not marry up. In a meritocratic society, it is not convincing to suggest that the groom outranks the bride socially because of a forebear's accomplishments six generations back...
...White House source, "is that he is not after Tricia because she is the daughter of the President." His parents are Social Register New York; his father Howard, who likes to be called "Colonel," is a lawyer who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. A forebear, Robert R. Livingston, administered the oath of office to President-elect George Washington. Eddie Cox wears tweed jackets and speaks in impeccable prep-school accents. He earned the wry nickname "Fast Eddie" at Manhattan's Trinity School-after a dissolute pool shark in The Hustler, whom the studious...
...agents of Italian starlets. Playmen was started in 1967, and looked enough like Playboy, which was then banned in Italy, to attract buyers. Except for the European style of its nudes and a blessed absence of Hefnerian philosophizing. Playmen still bears an outward resemblance to its U.S. forebear. Its centerpiece Girl of the Month folds out. while all about her lie layers of fiction, more-or-less serious articles and satellite layouts of film stars on sheets and Scandinavian beauties in saunas...
...shaman of the Beat Generation, Kerouac was a forebear of today's hippie and radical counterculture. But he would not or could not translate himself into the '60s. A little before he died last week at 47, Kerouac was muttering at both straight society and the rebellious young, the military-industrial complex and the Viet Cong. "You can't fight city hall," he wrote. "It keeps changing its name." It would be too easy to believe that all of today's radical young will slip into cantankerous conservatism. But some undoubtedly will. It may be that...
Moral Search. Dave, the numbers king, is a forebear of today's black radicals, a sort of "new Negro" whose drive for power and respectability is born of pride, anger and an awareness of his heritage. At best, his racket can bring him power only at the cost of respectability, and even that power is sharply circumscribed...