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Little Betty Perske from Brooklyn grew up into Lauren Bacall, long-legged, throaty-voiced actress and wife of Humphrey Bogart and Jason Robards. Soon readers will learn "the whole story," as she puts it, in her first book, Lauren Bacall By Myself, to be published in January. Her contract with Knopf "came along at a time in my life when I didn't know what I was going to do," says Bacall, 53. The autobiography, which describes her marriages and her affair with Frank Sinatra, will "tell much more about me than I ever thought people should know," says...
...prospered, Wilmot became an important Democratic Party fund raiser. He has entertained New York Governor Hugh Carey and Robert Kennedy in his Rochester home. After his unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1968, Hubert Humphrey relaxed at Wilmot's 400-acre hunting reserve at Mendon, N.Y. Wilmot, his friends and associates contributed large sums to the 1974 reelection campaign of Senator Daniel Inouye, member of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, and in 1976 to a fund set up by House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, then majority leader, for the campaigns of Democratic Congressmen...
...epidemic. Already the name thing has inspired the publication of whole books that purport to plumb the "psychological vibrations" of personal names. Dawn and Loretta and Candy are supposed to be sexy, according to Christopher Andersen's The Name Game, and Bart and Mac and Nate are macho. Humphrey is sedentary; so much for Bogart. Anyway Americans have not needed any tracts or theories to get them lunging after catchy handles. One Phoenix mother recently branded her new baby girl with the unforgettable sobriquet Equal Rights Amendment...
...hard to buy the idea of a presidential David locked in combat with a congressional Goliath when Congress is controlled by the President's party. There is a limit to how much public relations can accomplish. Notes Ted Van Dyk, a longtime aide to the late Hubert Humphrey: "Image flows from policies and performance. If they aren't good, no imagemaker can repair the situation...
...thousands of pre-Hispanic objects-Mayan stelae, Aztec jewelry, Incan pottery, Olmec figurines-are smuggled out of Mexico, Central America and the Andean nations of South America. The illicit trade easily reaches millions of dollars annually and involves characters so bizarre they might have stepped out of an old Humphrey Bogart film: shrewd peasants, soldiers of fortune, venal archaeologists, dealers, diplomats and collectors who are ready to pay-or do-almost anything to satisfy their greed...