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...upbringing, Jackie Kennedy has not only succeeded in separating the jealous worlds of family and official duty, but has handled both with verve, resolve and good taste. During nearly 17 months in the White House, she has gone far toward recreating and refurbishing the serene, classically elegant residence that Jefferson intended it to be. She has helped, too, to awaken the sometimes dormant American respect for excellence, be it in food or poetry, décor or dance...
...enlisting the help of Boss Priest's grandson, young Lucius, Boon "borrows" the car. Twenty-three and a half hours later-a record for the 80 miles of swamp road they heroically cover-Boon and Lucius reach Memphis. Just four days after that, they are back home in Jefferson again. In a series of outlandishly comic episodes, they have somehow lost the car and won it back, found a stolen horse and raced it, spent an innocent night in a Memphis bordello run by young Miss Reba, the madam who, some 25 years later (Yoknapatawpha time), was to figure...
...outside with signs, she says, 'What has Daddy done now?'" In a dinner toast, the President observed: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Canada's Liberal Party leader, Lester Pearson, who had been invited to the President's bedroom for a talk while Kennedy dressed for dinner, had a less graceful and less expansive view...
...farm didn't hold Walker for long. He went to Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, studied physics, graduated with a B.A. degree in 1942. Even before that, he had fallen in love with flying. "Whenever an airplane went by, everythin' stopped for me." In his senior year at college, he and a friend decided to try their wings at a grass airfield at Waynesburg. The event had something of the character of a corn-silk smoking session behind the barn. "I tell you," he says, "there was a lot of foot-draggin...
...North of its moral pretensions, he may have trimmed the truth as well. He lumps abolitionists with slaveholders, though, as Historian Oscar Handlin remarked, "There is surely a difference between being a fanatic for freedom and being a fanatic for slavery." He likens the two-year imprisonment of Jefferson Davis to Stalin's terrorism, but Stalin was rarely so gentle. When he claims that war is no more justified than one sea slug is in swal lowing another, his elegant prose turns a bit lumpish, like the slugs. He is at his best when he plunges into the minds...