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...novel down, I went to Yaddo, the writers' colony in upstate New York, to finish it. But after I'd been there 24 hours and read through it, I knew there wasn't a book there. I either had to go home--which I couldn't do because my friends had thrown me a big going-away party--or I had to figure out something else. I went into Saratoga Springs and bought a bottle of Scotch. How could I have spent two years working on something with so little value...
...level staff job, but "she was always at the center of things," recalls Richard Moe, then Vice President Mondale's chief of staff. She was the rare staff member who could work with both men and not get chewed up by the rivalry. At her going-away party, she recalls, "Muskie said that I was unique in that I was the only woman in the world to go from Pole to Pole...
...GOING-AWAY PRESENT FROM JOHN W. KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same...
...unpopular with more than a few in the Nixon circle. At a press awards dinner last week, Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson wryly alluded to Connally's penchant for poaching in other than Treasury preserves. Said Peterson: "Almost everybody is sorry to see him go. The State Department is having a going-away party; it is now in its 32nd hour...
...joke by one of Pignatari's chums, but Linda took the bait. She hurried back, made a luncheon date with Baby. But instead of keeping the date Baby threw a special kind of going-away party. At 2 p.m. a dozen hooting taxis began circling Linda's hotel. From each flapped a banner bearing the legend, "Go Home Linda." Tooting trumpets, 30 recruits from Rio's slums marched up waving more "Linda Go Home" signs. Then, from the windows of Baby's suite in an adjoining hotel came a hail of firecrackers...
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