Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young couple fell in love at Longlea, Millionaire Charles E. Marsh's mock 18th century manor, set on 1,000 acres of Virginia hunt country. He was an awkward, ambitious, first-term Congressman named Lyndon Johnson, and she was Alice Glass, then 26, a stately and bright young beauty with blond-ochre hair that one admirer said "shimmered and gleamed like nothing you ever saw." The previously undisclosed love affair is described by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro in Volume I of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, excerpted in the November Atlantic Monthly...
Nurtured in the 1930s, the romance between the married politician and the lady friend of Marsh...
Johnson's mentor and benefactor, flourished throughout L.B.J.'s career and even after Alice finally married Marsh, 24 years her senior. Until Viet Nam. She hated Johnson's obsession with the war and ended their relationship. Though L.B.J. often boasted of his later infidelities, he never discussed his affair with Glass, who died in 1976, perhaps out of deference to the lady's reputation, perhaps to that of Marsh's political and financial might. It was a relationship, says Caro, that "juts out of the landscape of Johnson's life...
Reported by Marsh Clark/Jerusalem and Wilton Wynn/Beirut
Today the Coop is every bit the modern department store, paralleling Jordan Marsh and Filenes. While the 23-member Board of Directors is made up of Harvard and MIT faculty and students and 10 "stockholders" officially own all the members' shares in trust, most of the power in the Coop is wielded by General Manager James A. Argeros, who manages the day-to-day operations. Argeros came to the Coop five years ago from the Allied Stores Corporation and is perceived by his colleagues as a tough, shrewd businessman. Under his direction in recent years. Coop membership has climbed above...