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...takes them to a guitar Mass at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, and he often scans the ads for family movies. When he is away, Kennedy calls home to talk to the children every night, a habit designed in part to assure them of his safety. Last year at Halloween, he startled his neighbors by joining the kids for the trick-or-treat rounds, dressed in a sheet...
Some National stewardesses decided that the idea amounted to a personal rather than a commercial proposition, and was a blatant sexist pitch. Three of them on a Halloween flight from New York to Miami displayed a cardboard cutout of a wrinkled witch in boots and military-type jacket with a Fly Me button. "If the ads would just say, 'Fly with me,' " complained Stewardess Ilene Held, "we'd be asking people to fly as part of our airline. It's the live stuff that gets to men, that makes them think...
Biographers have played Halloween with the ghost of Emily Dickinson. They Trick or Treat her remnants and if the treat proves not sweet enough, the trick is to corner her ghost and shake the memory of her until it faints into their already rattling paper bags. The truth is coated in coconut, and chocolate, and pistachio to satisfy the historical sweet tooth. (Her unidentified lover has been said to be Judge Lord, T.W. Higginson, her brother Austin, and her father, Edward Dickinson.) The ghost is unable even to say Boo. Emily Dickinson's grave has been a raucous place compared...
Jane Van Houten told much the same story about her daughter Leslie, a Camp Fire Girl, who took up the sousaphone in the sixth grade, was a homecoming princess at Monrovia High School. She even showed a picture of Leslie in her Halloween ballerina costume. "It was an outfit with a pink tutu," said Mrs. Van Houten, "and she got sick and couldn't go out on Halloween, so she wore it all the time she was in bed." In the summer of 1968, when she was 19, Leslie phoned her mother "to say that she was going...
Fifteen people were arrested for disorderly conduct Saturday night as 300 Tactical Police broke up a crowd of about 100 people gathered on the Boston Common for a Yippie Halloween party...