Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many relatives use their vacation days to cover their absence. For example, Joe (not his real name), a senior friend of mine from the Southwest, has 12 brothers and sisters, countless in-laws, nieces and nephews. Joe is the first child to graduate from an out-of-state school, not to mention Harvard University...
When the news broke last week that Nancy Reagan regularly consulted a woman astrologer about the President's schedule, reporters immediately scrambled to discover the mysterious seer's identity. Who was this "Friend" from San Francisco who had so much influence in determining when the President of the U.S. would -- or would not -- hold press conferences, deliver speeches, journey abroad? Not even Donald Regan, whose new book tells of the First Lady's reliance on the seer, learned the answer during his two years as White House chief of staff...
Today the sisters reside in a luxurious cream-color apartment building atop exclusive Nob Hill. Both are fixtures at local theater openings and society fund raisers. "Joan is elegant, witty, articulate and strikingly pretty," says her friend Beatrice Bowles. But another acquaintance of 20 years who requested anonymity describes Quigley as "conservative, very private and a little wacky...
...matter how much stock the First Lady put in Quigley's advice, the astrologer is certainly fallible. According to a friend, Quigley had been predicting for months that a major earthquake would rock San Francisco on May 5. She was out of the city on that day, which may or may not show that she takes her own forecasts seriously. But May 5 came and went with nary a tremble -- except perhaps on Quigley's personal Richter scale. That was the last day of blissful anonymity for the First Lady's astrologer...
...exclusive excerpts from his forthcoming book, former White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan tells how Nancy Reagan' s astrologer all but controls the President' s schedule -- and how the First Lady controls much besides that. -- Mrs. Reagan' s "Friend" with the star charts is Joan Quigley, a Nob Hill socialite with several books to her credit. See NATION...