Word: lucie
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Horticulturally speaking, a Virginia azalea and a Texas rose aren't even kissing kin. But showbizwise, what casting! So Norfolk's International Azalea Festival set a date with Washington's Luci Baines Johnson, and not only got a gracious four-day queen but an unexpected visit from L.B.J. in the bargain. Daddy may be busy these days, but he could hardly use Viet Nam as an alibi when it came to crowning Her Majesty Luci Baines Azalea...
From the Pulpit. Lyndon Johnson himself seemed to sense the moment as he studied the faces that gazed at him. In the visitors' gallery were Lady Bird, Lynda (Luci stayed home to study), and their guest J. Edgar Hoover; on the House floor were scores of former colleagues, the Cabinet, Chief Justice Warren and four Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. Other faces were conspicuous for their absence. The entire congressional delegations of Mississippi and Virginia and a host of fellow Southerners had deliberately stayed away...
...name does seem to help down along the Shenandoah-last year's queen was Luci Baines Johnson...
...preoccupation with education continued. Addressing 40 high school student-winners of a Westinghouse Foundation science contest, he proudly announced that Daughter Luci had been admitted to Georgetown University School of Nursing, quoted her as saying: "Daddy, there is just nothing more 'in' than brains." Later the same day, he delivered a rousing sermon before some 200 delegates to a National Education Association conference...
...Luci Baines Johnson, 17, who graduates from the National Cathedral School in June, is applying to the Jesuits' Georgetown University School of Nursing, where a four-year course leads to a bachelor of science degree. If accepted, she can live at home, which will be fine with her father, the Secret Service, and her best beau Paul Betz, 20, a pre-med at close-enough Mount Saint Mary's College in Maryland...