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Upstairs at "21," Angier Biddle Duke, gauze-wrapped lemon wedge in hand, is poised over a plate of bluepoints, but stops in mid-squeeze to greet Old Friend Lennie. Quick kisses from salad-eating ladies, then Lyons darts downstairs again to say hello to Walter Cronkite, who is lunching with Dinah Shore. On his way out, Lyons helps himself to two of the hard candies in the bowl near the door -one for himself, one "in case I meet somebody...
...frail-looking; on the rush-hour subway home to West 81st Street, he is just another straphanger. He demonstrates his own unrecognizability by spotting people reading "The Lyons Den" and saying to them, just before he gets off the train, "Not a bad column." Sylvia is always home to greet him, and if she sees lipstick on his cheek, she knows he's having a good day. "I figure Charles Revson kissed him," she says...
...Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrived at the south portico of the White House last week, he may have had a fleeting fancy that he had come to a banana republic or a Balkan kingdom. On hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards caparisoned in Graustarkian dress uniforms festooned with gold braid and nipped at the waist with black leather gunbelts. The black vinyl hats trimmed in gold suggested, by turns, a Ruritanian palace guard, a Belgian customs inspector, and Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow...
...czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned to the talks a week later than he had promised. When he arrived in Peking two weeks ago, the Chinese administered an unmistakable snub by sending a second-echelon official to greet him at the airport...
Beyond the simple history and mild comedy that its twin bill offers Hoffman-Voight fans, American International Pictures deserves an additional salute from the industry. Eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror and hands planted in the cash register, AIP has devised a unique way to greet the '70s, ringing in the now by wringing...