Word: lawford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to find out through tax audits in 1971 whether Actor John Wayne, a supporter of the President, was being unfairly treated by IRS, Caulfield secured tax-status reports from Acree on such other cinema celebrities as Richard Boone, Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra, as well as on California Governor Ronald Reagan. After comparing these reports with Wayne's treatment by IRS, Caulfield concluded that "the Wayne complaint ... does not appear to be strong enough to be pursued." The same Acree-to-Caulfield connection gave the White House information...
...poignant family memory was evoked last week at Washington's Kennedy Center. Ethel Kennedy, her 20-year-old son Bobby Jr., Senator Ted Kennedy, his wife Joan and sisters Eunice Shriver, Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, joined some 325 journalists and friends at the sixth annual presentation of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Awards, which honored reporting on minority-group problems. Then Ethel thanked CBS's Roger Mudd for his stint as awards chairman. "I would like to add one personal note," she began, only to come near tears as she recalled the tragedy in a kitchen...
...from Wayne for the years 1964 through 1966. As part of his probe, Caulfield examined the records of audits by the IRS of returns filed by a cross section of politicians and show-business personalities, both for and against Nixon. They included Richard Boone, Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. All had been dunned for back taxes. The biggest IRS bill had gone to Lewis, who owed $446,312 for 1958 through 1968. He was followed by Davis ($36,683 between 1961 and 1966), Lawford ($32,720 between...
...There's no baloney with Grandma," Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's grandson Christopher Lawford observes toward the end of this book. Christopher's young cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr., explains: Rose likes you to learn a lot, and she gives you plenty of cake...
...star's suicide in 1962, Wilson constructs a labyrinthine scenario that shuttles Kennedy and Monroe round the country, juggling dark glasses, wigs and stand-ins to cover their trysts. Even Monroe's last words were about Kennedy, claims Wilson. Kennedy's brother-in-law Peter Lawford, by Wilson's account the last person she spoke to, allegedly heard her say haltingly over the telephone: "Say goodbye to the President and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice...