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From traveling secretary of baseball's Cincinnati Reds to reporter to Washington bureau chief to Journalist Statesman-in-Residence. And what does Reston search for? The meaning of the nation's 200th anniversary. Perhaps he thinks that America will find "dignity, simplicity, and unity" through some gala birthday party. It is a fruitless hope...
...loves to entertain even now, and gives her usual "little dinners." She has a knack for bringing a table to life. "I need company," she says. "Not many at a time, though. Three or four, or half a dozen at most. Nowadays, two tables of ten represent a real gala." In the duke's day it was nothing for 40 to sit down to crested linen and crystal, to incomparable wine and food. "We usually had music. The duke loved to dance and to take a turn at the drums. But I don't dance any more...
Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 54, will need all her poise to stay in the spotlight at the gala benefit in Manhattan for Washington, D.C.'s National Ballet next week. Appearing as Princess Aurora in a sequence from Sleeping Beauty, Fonteyn will be supported by a quartet of amateur ballerinas but professional scene-stealers: Film Star Paulette Goddard, 62, as the Queen, TV Panelist Arlene Francis, 65, as the Lilac Fairy, Broadway Dancer Gwen Verdon, 47, as a comical Little Red Ridinghood, and Actress Julie Newmar, 38, as the White Cat. Newmar rises to a majestic...
...biggest concern may not be security but his health. Before he accepted his presidential nomination, doctors warned him that his heart could not stand the strain of four years in office. When Perón attended a gala performance of Swan Lake at the Teatro Colón on the night of his inauguration, newsmen noticed a specially equipped mobile heart unit parked outside...
...looks like the Kennedy Memorial Library won't be able to have its gala opening during the nation's bicentennial, as library officials, well aware of peak tourism times, had hoped...