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Trying to keep the campaign from becoming another Titanic, senior Ford advisers recently held an emergency summit conference. Among those attending were Republican Heavyweights Melvin Laird, Dean Burch and Bryce Harlow as well as some G.O.P. congressional leaders and two savvy fund raisers, Detroit Industrialist Max Fisher and California Businessman Leon Parma...
...teach himself the art of film making. He was such a fast learner that within two years he won an Oscar for a silent comedy and went on to produce Hell's Angels, an epic of World War I aerial combat. For the leading lady, he discovered Jean Harlow, whose wondrously sculpted shape, platinum hair, plus a certain charming vulgarity, gave her a unique place in the American libido...
...being seen with the right woman. Says Bill Feeder, who was director of RKO public relations when Hughes owned the studio: "Sex and showmanship were the same thing to him. The romance stories were a lot of baloney." Hughes spent plenty of time in public with his star Jean Harlow-but no time in private, according to people who knew them both. He was put off by the blonde bombshell's four-letter-word vocabulary. He explained earthily why he plucked Jane Russell from obscurity to star her in The Outlaw. But he did no more than stare...
...habits. He would turn up at the office at noon with eyes already so glazed that Treasury Secretary William Simon was reminded of a "windup doll." Nixon let himself ramble incoherently at private dinners. At a pre-Christmas dinner in 1973 with a few intimates, including Political Adviser Bryce Harlow and Senator Barry Goldwater, he was unable to express himself. "Bryce, explain what I'm saying to Barry," he pleaded several times. Next day Goldwater called Harlow, asking, "Is the President off his rocker?" Replied Harlow, "No. He was drunk...
Luxurious, sassy and a lot of fun, Lucky Lady is very much a movie of the times-both now and then. It is a wisecracking, softhearted romantic adventure in which the major characters seem modeled on movie stars. With the shade of Jean Harlow peering over her cocked shoulder, Liza Minnelli plays a '20s rumrunner called Claire Dobie. Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds, her partners in crime, are like Tracy and Gable, fast friends and occasional antagonists, both in love with Claire. These three amorous buddies run booze up the California coast from Mexico, playing cat-and-mouse with...