Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television ("Coffee with the Kennedys"). Toward the end, State Senator John Powers, then and now a top Kennedy lieutenant, urged that Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy be brought into the campaign. "But she's a grandmother," objected Joe Kennedy. "That's all right," said Powers. "She's a Gold Star mother, the mother of a war hero and a Congressman, the wife of an ambassador, the daughter of a mayor and Congressman, the daughter-in-law of a state senator and representative. She's beautiful and she's a Kennedy. Let me have her." Powers...
Through the Roof. The huge State Fair Music Hall (capacity: 4,100) was almost a quarter empty when La Callas appeared, shimmering and glowing in a Venetian-gold gown with diamonds glittering at her ears. Behind her was a black-bordered set with a sky-blue backdrop, creating the effect of an immense shadow box. Callas had committed herself to a murderously difficult concert of eight operatic arias. All week she had kept trying to cut the number down to three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from...
...humoredly ignoring the listening, watching press, he seemed calm and in good temper as he surveyed the crowd, shook hands with the incoming Japanese ambassador. I stood only three feet from him, clicking away, looking for a flicker of a beady eye or something revealing, finding him really rather gold-toothed, charming, but thinking, "I'll bet he's seen some things." With all the cameras present I don't know why he singled me out, but all at once, without particularly looking at me, he leaned toward his young interpreter and said something. Grinning, the young...
...have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead was a broker (Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training." He compensates for this deficiency by soaking his gold braid in brine whenever the green seems to be wearing off, and by declaring loud and often, in peculiarly defective sailor-Latin ("You're getting my bilge up!"), that a P.R.O. does just as much...
John P. Blass of Eliot House and Stamford, Connecticut; Morton F. Gold berg of Winthrop House and Amesbury, Massachusetts; J. David Greenstone of Kirkland House and Rochester...