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...elder daughter Gloria, two years younger than Jimmy, is also close by on the west edge of Plains with her husband Walter Spann. She tries to place herself for you at once and tell a too simple tale-"I'm a farm wife and nothing else; listen, I'm country." Country covers a good many things-most of the life of mankind, for one-but what she seems to be asking to mean is naive, innocent. Again the face talks when the mouth reneges-her mother's face on Gloria, 30 years younger, broader, lined differently...
...beamers since they knowingly beam against the grain of what they've endured): "When Jimmy was a boy, we called him 'Hot'-he was always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family...
...Lady Bird Johnson, Auntie Mameish Liz Carpenter is heading home to Austin, Texas, "to think more, to write more and to raise a little hell." At a farewell party at Ford's Theater, Old Friends Pearl Bailey and Carol Charming sang a duet, and Nancy Dickerson and Gloria Steinem helped narrate Carpenter's life story. But stealing the show, as usual, was Liz herself. "I stand here as the only Democrat leaving town," she told the 650 guests. Reminiscing a bit, Carpenter, 56, cracked: "I can remember most of the men's first wives and Bill Proxmire...
Ralph Nader was there, and so was the executive vice president of American Motors. The founder of Rolling Stone and the managing editor of the Washington Post took part, as did two of the most conservative newspaper columnists in the U.S. Gloria Steinem and the Knicks' Bill Bradley were there, and so were a former Heisman Trophy winner, a Nobel Laureate, a Navajo tribal leader, nine college presidents, 15 mayors and Governors, 14 Congressmen and Senators, and scores of businessmen, teachers, lawyers and economists. The occasion: a two-day conference held in Washington by TIME on the subject...
...GLORIA STEINEM, editor, Ms. magazine: Mine was a middle-class family in Toledo fallen on hard times, but we had books in the house. Like many women who don't conform, I didn't have brothers, so it is possible some of the dreams of the family were inadvertently invested in me. Show business was a pass ticket out of our neighborhood, so we all dreamed of being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls...