Word: glens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once was. Although the massive, gingerbread homes of the opulent are still there, tourism and riotous jazz festivals have distorted the old style and spirit. Yet, among the get-away-from-it-all homes that Jackie and Jack Kennedy have used since he became President (Virginia's Glen Ora. Papa Joe Kennedy's Palm Beach mansion, and the Hyannisport complex), Newport has special meaning. It was on the green-lawned, Angus-stocked, 97-acre Hammersmith Farm, owned by her stepfather and mother, Hugh and Janet Auchincloss, that Jackie spent her youthful summers. It was in the rambling...
Doubtless there are many ways in which the USIA might be improved. But surely such improvements will result from constructive suggestions, not editorial anacolutha. I have known some brave and competent men in the USIA who suffered from McCarthyism and I think your editorial does them less than justice. Glen D. Camp, Jr. '53, Former USIA Asst. Information Officer
...Episcopalians were impressed. "This sort of thing is soul-destroying," said the Rev. Bernard G. Buley of Waukesha, Wis. "A very strange world," mused the Rev. John G. Forrell of Glen Ridge, NJ. "I would not know how to talk to these men and women." Suffragan Bishop Charles F. Boynton of New York summed it up: "This has done us a lot of good. We normally don't realize that so many human beings are riveted to one operation with no opportunity to exercise creativity or imagination...
Some of the preachers are healers, like Brother Glen Thompson of Hot Springs, Ark. Thompson takes about four minutes to work himself up to a scream of healing: "That woman down there with arthritis, send in your request!'' he shouts. ''And that woman in her kitchen just now that is suffering with a bad tumor-God wants you to send in your request! And that woman that is sitting there by the radio and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Oh. God, don't doubt this broadcast. Be sure that you help...
Estateliest of the Kennedy homes is Jack and Jackie Kennedy's rented, 14-room French Provincial winter weekend retreat, Glen Ora. in Virginia's tweedy hunt country. Built in 1810. Glen Ora is decorated in manored elegance: Louis XV and Regency chairs in the drawing room, a Duncan Phyfe table and Hepplewhite chairs in the dining room. The President's bedroom is off-white with a three-quarter mahogany sleigh bed, a mahogany bureau, and a red and white slipcovered lounge chair; Jackie's bedroom has twin beds, a French desk, and is papered...