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...sporting an arm in a sling as a result of his third polo spill in 13 months. His only daughter put on a J.G.S. (school slang for jolly good show) representing her school, Benenden, for the first time at a local meet. She took a piebald named Jester over the jumps to win a red rosette (winning team) in the combined competition, picked up yellow (tie third) in junior dressage...
...ride through the caviar-and-champagne life, the transatlantic life, the gaspy-gossipy life, which she enjoyed so much that she made lots of other people enjoy it too. She was a clown always ready and willing to take a pratfall, and she was often compared to a court jester. But Elsa was really a kind of super cruise director, working with diligence and resourcefulness to keep the passengers amused-sometimes even with each other...
...Labor Party is already in full cry. Describing the Tory selection process as viciously undemocratic, the Laborite Daily Mirror wrote: "Butler has been betrayed, Maudling insulted, Macleod ignored, Heath treated with contempt and Hailsham giggled out of court by the jester in hospital." Deriding the Tories' "aristocratic cabal," Harold Wilson last week took aim and declared scornfully: "In this ruthlessly competitive, scientific, technical, industrial age, a week of intrigues has produced a result based on family and hereditary connections. The leader has emerged-an elegant anachronism...
...such imaginative analyses, Art Buchwald has more than justified the Tribune's decision to bring him back from Paris, where he played journalistic jester for 14 years (TIME, June 22, 1962). At the time, there were those who doubted that Buchwald would feel comfortable in the presence of such sobersides as Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann or find anything funny about Washington. But the fears proved groundless. Buchwald simply invented his own Washington...
Powers is neither buffoon nor court jester but a shrewd and amiable Irishman who knows the President's moods and specializes in the topics of the day with a dry wit and sometimes sharp thrust. Universally liked around the White House, he carefully addresses Kennedy as "Mr. President," just as carefully avoids horning in on any serious matters of state. His invariable greeting for even the stuffiest White House visitor is "Hi, pal." As he rode through the streets of Paris in a motorcade after meeting Charles de Gaulle, Powers waved to the crowd and shouted: "Comment alley-voos...