Word: galbraith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech was quick to peek inside the shoes, triumphantly cabled home: "I can state with absolute authority that she wears 10A and not 10AA." So clothes-conscious were the newsmen that they even asked U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith who had designed his suit...
Then at Jaipur, the First Lady was expected to throw a coin from her own country into a silver pot. Galbraith, said the columnist, had not informed Mrs. Kennedy of the local superstitions and was even caught without an American coin. Touring newswomen provided a quarter...
John Kenneth Galbraith as a diplomat is "just another absent-minded professor," claims at least one Washington columnist in a report on Mrs. Kennedy's trip through India...
After Mrs. Kennedy reluctantly decided not to purchase some expensive gold statuettes at a bazaar, "Galbraith, smiling down on her, encouraged: 'Why not send the bill to the President?'" Concluded Ruth Montgomery, "Friends who know JFK as a close man with his own money wonder if Galbraith may not have gone too far with that remark...
...syndicated column yesterday, Ruth Montgomery of the Hearst papers said, "When Jackie began clamoring to visit India, the President wrote Galbraith to arrange things, but from the day of her arrival in India the 'Prof' has been pulling one gaff after another...