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...sent to a more favorable committee). The congressional fledglings were advised to be careful in selecting their office space, since the wrong choice can add up to five miles a day in their walking routine. "If you end up in the far corner of the Longworth Office Building, you're dead," warned Talisman. He also helped Congresswoman Jordan go over the résumés of some 200 applicants for jobs on her staff; like many other first-term Representatives, she did not know most of the applicants or the people they cited as references...
...gatherings, where steady streams of VIPs pay court to his influence. Otherwise, Spivak prefers to entertain Washington figures in his apartment, sizing them up over lunch or cocktails as potential TV guests. He and his wife are also members of a permanent floating poker group that includes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who, until she kicked the habit two years ago, was the only person to defy Spivak's edict against smoking in his home...
...crucial way. The Years Alone is less interesting. It features the same sturdy central character, but how one misses that old supporting cast! Gone is the gallery of flamboyant Roosevelt drunks to predictably early graves. The martinet mother-in-law is dead too, and even Cousin Alice Longworth's acid tongue is inexplicably silent, though she is still alive. Most sorely missed of all is F.D.R. himself, whose death marked the end of the first book. Only traces of his wit remain, such as this prayer for deliverance: "O Lord, make Eleanor tired...
...fellowship" over T.V. sets and pool tables, and has consequently neglected to buy the latter. There is no denying the strength of that sense of fellowship, however, at least during the heyday of the clubs. Theodore Roosevelt, informing Kaiser Wilhelm of the engagement of his daughter Alice to Nicholas Longworth, volunteered the line: "Nick and I are both in the Porc, you know...
...into a marathon fit of kissing everyone in reach. "May I kiss you one more time?" he asked Rose Kennedy. Said Rose gently; "I think it will ruin my makeup." Tact may have accounted for some of the praise, but in the case of 87-year-old Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and one of Washington's more outspoken oldtimers, tact was beside the point. "I liked Hair better," said Alice...