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Anthony Caracciolo, who works the 3-to-7 shift on Jordan Marsh's fifth floor, says he tried to bluff the first time he heard that question. "Now it's easier just to say you and the other Santas are Santa's helpers," he explains. A 63-year-old retired civil servant in his rookie season in the red uniform. Caracciolo says, "Being a Santa is one of the things I have always wanted to do in my life. I'm getting paid $4.50 an hour, but I'd gladly...
Mike Wallace, who works weekends at Jordan Marsh, sees the job's finances differently: "If they knew how much I loved to be Santa, Jordan's would charge me $50 an hour to do it," he says. The 71-year-old Wallace has worked for J.M. for seven years. But he says he has been a Santa ever since, being pudgy "he was volunteered for a company Christmas party 20 years ago. Now he also suits up during the week at local shopping centers. I would love to say I take a sleigh all over Boston, but in reality...
...drove his Mexican-American students relentlessly, and gave them self-respect and ambitions they had never known. In the book's most touching chapter, Caro describes Johnson's enduring love for Alice Glass, the high-spirited mistress and later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared Congressman, then 29, during a party at Longlea, her regal Virginia estate. He arranged a visa extension at her request for Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, an Austrian Jew fleeing the Nazis. The relationship continued until the 1960s, when...
Johnson bragged crudely about many liaisons after his 1934 marriage to Lady Bird Taylor, but about Alice he was as silent, Caro writes, "as a young man in love." And uncharacteristically rash: Marsh, the owner of several Texas newspapers and one of Johnson's most influential patrons, was someone he could hardly afford to cross. Luckily for Lyndon, Marsh never caught on. The author quotes a witness to the affair: "That was the only time-the only time-in Lyndon Johnson's whole life that he was pulled off the course that he had set for himself...
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...