Word: lucis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ferdinand Louvat, 53, French pastry chef at the White House, hired by the Kennedys in 1962, who whipped up countless delectables for dignitaries and topped off his career with the Texas-sized (13 tiers, 8 ft. tall, 300 Ibs.) wedding cake he baked for Luci Johnson last year; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...into giving him exclusives, and he insisted on getting the material for fashion sketches earlier than anyone else. Women's Wear has come to pride itself on scoops, from revealing Jackie Kennedy's Paris buying sprees during the 1960 election campaign to printing the first sketch of Luci Johnson's wedding dress -an act that caused the paper's reporters to be banned from the wedding...
Back at the ranch, the President registered a complaint about his grandson. Often, while driving around, he radioed the guest house where Luci and Son-in-Law Pat were tending the baby. When Lyn was awake, Johnson would drop by for a visit-but usually the baby was asleep. Grumbled the President: "I can't remember Luci and Lynda sleeping that much...
...Johnson, who stood by in the hospital during her daughter's six hours' labor and delivery, immediately telephoned the news to her husband at the White House and was joshed about "being a grandma." Hearing about his son-in-law's elephant joke, Grandpa Johnson wired Luci: "I am happy for you and Patrick Sr., and Patrick Lyndon. Our best Hereford heifer is being curried for delivery, consigned to your 9-lb. son, who incidentally I know doesn't look like a donkey, and I hope that his father will quit publicizing him as an elephant...
...Born. To Luci Johnson Nugent, 19, and Patrick John Nugent, 23: a boy, President Johnson's first grandchild; in Austin, Texas...