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They hobnobbed with Roosevelts and Kennedys, counseled Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson, entertained the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. At their hereditary mansion they favored English butlers and European decor; even the family charades grew so elaborate that they were pictured in LIFE magazine. But for all this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus...
...receptionist, but it looks better on her resume to say press secretary. It's no big deal. Then it's on to a newspaper and a career in journalism. This leads to writing books jammed with dirt on famous people. Soon she's pulling in zillions. She owns a mansion, wears designer clothes, chums with notables at glittering parties. Makes a lot of friends. Makes a lot more enemies, thanks to her inimitable way with the rumors that she gathers for her best sellers. Maybe sends a few anonymous letters to warn off folks who are searching for the real...
What Kelley would probably admit she possesses, apart from blond cotton- candy hair, a breathless voice and a historic mansion in Washington's fancy Georgetown ghetto, is a drive for nonstop work and a tenacity that borders on obsession. Enemies and friends agree on that...
Then the Kennedy clan arrived for what Senator Teddy called a "traditional Easter weekend" at the white stucco oceanfront mansion his father bought from Rodman Wanamaker in 1933. This year the weekend included a Good Friday night outing for the Senator, his son Patrick and nephew William Kennedy Smith at Au Bar, the club of the moment, where a mixture of old money, European quasi- royalty, young model-waitresses and the occasional male in a leather miniskirt boogie to loud music. Ted Kennedy sipped his usual, Chivas Scotch, until closing time at 3:30 a.m., when the three men returned...
Washington targeted both Wadi and Matrix-Churchill in its seizure of Iraqi holdings in the U.S. after the gulf crisis broke out. Federal agents shut the machine-tool company in September and took possession of Wadi's Sunset Boulevard mansion last month, along with his bank accounts, including one that contained $200,000. The Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered Wadi to leave the country by the end of March, when his visa was due to expire, or face arrest and deportation proceedings. As governments assemble more details of Saddam's stolen secret billions, such crackdowns could become increasingly common around...