Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another chapter to John Kennedy's lengthening Lothario legend. The central figure this time is Mary Pinchot Meyer, an attractive, well-connected Washington artist who was the sister-in-law of Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. As former Post Vice President James Truitt recently told the National Enquirer, Kennedy's liaison with Meyer while he was President lasted nearly two years and even included some pot smoking in the White House bedroom. "She was not the kind of person to get into a dalliance," insists one old friend of the Meyer family. "This wasn't some...
...member Japanese-American Citizens League is circulating a petition to have Mrs. Aquino pardoned by President Ford. "The judge sentenced the legend of Tokyo Rose," contends the league, not a real person. Mrs. Aquino is far from sanguine about the outcome of the pardon effort, but recognizes that it would at least restore her U.S. citizenship. "America is my home; it will always be my home," she declares, "and I never did anything disloyal to the country I love...
...Legend has it that Sophocles wrote a play at 90 and used it as evidence to refute his son, who wished to seize the aged dramatist's estate on the ground that he was senile. Sophocles won the case. It is to be feared that if Enid Bagnold, 86, were put to the test via A Matter of Gravity, she would not fare quite so well...
PART OF THE Dylan legend is the promise that one day we will finally know the "real" Dylan. The promotion department at Columbia Records plays on this promise with the release of every new record--the hype for Blood on the Tracks went something like this: "You've heard the folk Dylan; you've heard the rock 'n' roll Dylan; you've heard the country Dylan; here, at last, is the real Dylan...
Dudley House members including their master, annually scale Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. According to house legend, Mayer challenges the students to reach the peak before he does and every year he's the first one to the top. Mayer laughed when asked about this story. "I'd despair about the general health of the population if out of all those students, there wasn't somebody who could get there before I do. But," he quickly added, "I did finish well before a number of students...