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...have its high points: Broadway and TV Star Nell Carter hip-hopping through Alexander's Ragtime Band, Michael Feinstein singing I Love a Piano, and Garrison Keillor reciting All Alone. But then there were the lows: tinny amplification, an overpowering brass section, Bea Arthur's oomphless Hostess with the Mostes' and Leonard Bernstein's self- indulgent twelve-tone parody of A Russian Lullaby. Bernstein was also notable for ad hoc choreography. In seamless motion during the final bows, he embraced Shirley Maclaine, knelt before Marilyn Horne and lodged himself beside Frank Sinatra. The show is ended -- thank God, Berlin...
That was the first meeting between John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and Gorey, then news editor at the Salt Lake City Tribune. Gorey also met Robert and Ethel Kennedy, the host and hostess of the lawn party at which he found himself. A few months later, Gorey was back on the job in Utah when J.F.K. came through to deliver a speech. Noticing Gorey in the audience, he sought him out and asked his advice about the best time to declare his candidacy for the presidency. The earlier the better, replied Gorey. Kennedy smiled. Soon afterward...
They set off a bomb in the airliner's tail section, setting the plane on fire, Tass said, "An air hostess and three passengers were killed as a result of this terrorism," it said...
Repeatedly, Nancy Reagan was asked about frosty relations. "I've answered that five times," she snapped and turned deliberately toward Raisa Gorbachev. Coolly correct, Raisa added, "Everything is all right. Mrs. Reagan gave the answer. She is the hostess, and that was her word." Another reporter asked if Raisa would like to live in the White House. Perhaps unaware that the Reagans' living quarters are upstairs, Raisa glanced at her opulent surroundings. "This is an official residence," she said. "I would say, humanly speaking, that a human being would like to live in a regular house." Smiling, she added, "This...
...project began as a book about working wives, evolved into a steamy kiss- and-tell memoir, had its best parts lifted by the Washington Post, then was withdrawn from circulation -- all without ever being published. Such was the fate of the 80-page book proposal by Washington Hostess Joan Braden, wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, frequent companion of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and mother of the brood on which the TV sitcom Eight Is Enough was based...