Word: hyannisport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Wisconsin to last week, when she finished a major part of the reporting for this week's cover story, Anne Chamberlin has shared important moments with the new First Lady. Last July in Hyannisport, she was present when Jacqueline tuned in a borrowed television set to watch the Democratic Convention. Wrote Correspondent Chamberlin: "Jackie settled into a huge flowered arm chair, draped a striped beach towel over her knees, and spread out a vast clutter of paint tubes, palette, brushes, a glass of water, a glass of rose wine (left from dinner), a cup of coffee, a jarful...
...this was mere preparation for what she regards as the toughest confrontation of her career-with Caroline Kennedy, then 2½, in Hyannisport last summer. "A true Kennedy," Reporter Chamberlin discovered, "she likes to test your mettle by setting you some impossible challenge, then sitting back to watch you disentangle yourself. In any case, she put me in charge of a fast-melting frozen custard while she went to find one of her kittens. I got frozen custard on the rug, in my shoes, on the dog, on the front door and part of the terrace before I was rescued...
...rich with taste and culture: soft-spoken butlers pad across the wine-colored carpets; mellow, morocco-bound classics line the walls; and television is relegated to a tiny recess on one side of the vast fireplace. While the Kennedys were haranguing one another with political questions at their Hyannisport table, dinner at Merrywood was often conducted in French...
...larger bear hug of the Kennedy family, Jackie flatly refused to be smothered. After breaking an ankle at touch football, she resolutely withdrew from the family scrimmages. She firmly refused to attend the nightly family dinners at Hyannisport, where a dozen or more argumentative Kennedys were always in attendance ("Once a week is great. Not every night"). Last summer, during the Democratic Convention, she had a stockade fence erected around her Hyannisport home, as much to fence out the neighboring Kennedy small fry and animals as the prying public. The proof that she had won her intramural war of independence...
...took ten sticks of dynamite, some blasting caps and wire, and began to shadow Jack Kennedy. He cased the cottage in Hyannisport, sized up the house in Georgetown, headed south for Palm Beach. "The security," he said later, "was lousy." His plans were to rig himself up as a human bomb and explode in Kennedy's presence. "The Kennedy money bought him the White House," Richard Pavlick said. "I wanted to teach the United States the presidency is not for sale...