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Divorced. Peter Lawford, 51, silver-haired actor and former brother-in-law of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy when he was married to their sister Patricia; by Mary Rowan, 25, daughter of Comedian Dan Rowan, straight man of TV's Laugh-In; after three years and five months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...that created such euphonious superhits as Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'. When the group broke up in 1968, the Earth Motherly (5 ft. 5 in., as much as 250 Ibs.) Elliot embarked on a successful solo career. More than 300 people, including such luminaries as Carol Burnett, Peter Lawford and now divorced ex-Mama and Papa Michelle and John Phillips, attended the Hollywood funeral...
...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...
...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...