Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan made serious mistakes. He spent little time in the cities and towns where much of Ford's strength lay: Keene, Nashua, Durham, Portsmouth and Dover. He erred by campaigning in Illinois the day before the primary; New Hampshire Campaign Manager Hugh Gregg, a former Governor, had advised Reagan that further stumping in New Hampshire was unnecessary. In hindsight, an unhappy Reagan strategist concluded, "That's when we should have been going full bore. The situation was that volatile...
...reason to give anyone trouble during last week's Friars Roast in Manhattan. With 1,000 guests crammed into the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the singer ego-tripped through 4½ hours of praise and put-downs from Comedian Don Rickles, New York Governor Hugh Carey and a dais full of old chums. The $200-and $500-a-plate dinner also brought a visit from one hardy Sinatra pal: former Vice President Spiro Agnew. Toasting the singer for his "fierce sense of loyalty," Spiro declared: "I am honored to be his friend...
Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...
...daytime soap opera. Last summer the British author of The Homecoming separated from his wife of 19 years, Actress Vivien Merchant, 46, and took up housekeeping with Lady Antonia Fraser, 43, a whirling dervish of London society, a biographer (Mary Queen of Scots) and mother of six. Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser kept discreetly quiet about his wife's affair, but Merchant sued Pinter for divorce, and the new lovemates quickly assumed a low public profile. Lately, however, those profiles have ventured back into the open. Earlier this month Fraser and Pinter appeared together at the London Evening Standard...
...Convention in New York City next July. So last week the Governor announced that Arthur Krim, the longtime party fund raiser who heads United Artists, would provide the "necessary liaison" for Carey, Cunningham and National Chairman Robert Strauss for the convention and other matters of mutual interest. That way, Hugh can rely on Arthur rather than Pat to be his front man with...