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...Please, all the men in the country, so that I won't be rude to you, do not attempt to kiss me." GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, President of the Philippines, addressing affectionate male citizens who often greet her with kisses on both cheeks...
...those days there were sub-deb parties at the Waldorf, and tea-dancing at the Plaza,? Gloria Vanderbilt writes in a memoir excerpted in the current issue of Vanity Fair; ?it was Glenn Miller and ?Moonlight Serenade.? That was New York just before World War II.? Phyllis was a pert part of that era of money and moonlight...
...Southampton and headquarters in Manhattan, where Phyllis attended the distinguished Brearley School on East 83rd Street. Among the closest pals in her set were Oona O?Neill (Eugene?s daughter, later Charlie Chaplin?s wife), Carol Marcus (who later married William Saroyan, twice, and Walter Matthau) and little Gloria (whose gallery show opening Phyllis took us to about ten years ago). In 1986 Carol?s son Aram Saroyan published a history-memoir of Gloria, Oona and Carol called ?Trio.? Since Phyllis was an intimate member of the circle, I figure the book should have been called ?Quartet...
...DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, New York Times veteran war correspondent known for poignantly chronicling the effect of war on ordinary people in such places as Vietnam, Nigeria and Gaza; of apparent suicide; in New York City. Her book on the aftereffects of the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers, won a National Book Award in 1978. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson told an interviewer later that she went to Vietnam because "they...
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hasn't suffered much from her recent decision to withdraw 51 troops from Iraq to save the life of Angelo de la Cruz, a Philippine truck driver kidnapped by insurgents in Fallujah. Despite a rebuke last week by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer?"If we start caving into terrorists," Downer boomed, "our foreign policy, our international relationships will be determined by terrorists"?Arroyo has been flaunting her decision to grant the kidnappers' demands and bring home the soldiers as a badge of honor. She crowed about De la Cruz's homecoming in her annual State...