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Party loyalty swept Washington, most of it for a series of farewell shindigs honoring Tish Baldrige, 37, dynamic White House social secretary, who leaves in June to take a job at Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago. One well-attended bash, arranged by an aide of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, had all those Texas trimmings-including a garden display of some high points in Tish's career. Later, L.B.J. helped whoop it up for a set of lyrics (to the tune of St. James Infirmary Blues) dedicated to the capital's favorite blonde...
...that his wife's social secretary Letitia (Tish) Baldrige will have a proper send-off next week when she leaves her job to become a kind of flack-of-all-trades for Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Tish, who was social secretary to David K.E. Bruce when he was U.S. Ambassador to France, and who worked in the same capacity for Clare Boothe Luce when she was U.S. Ambassador to Italy, was a ball of fire in the White House. But a ball of fire could not very well assume the role of anonymity that Jackie...
...York, which determines ratings from diaries filled out by TV-set owners (in return for such gratuities as nail files and hair combs), was unable under investigation to show even one of its claimed thousands of diaries. A postal official at Chicago's Merchandise Mart, where the company had a drop box, could recall no such mail's ever arriving, and officials at the warehouse where current diaries were purported to be stored said that they had considered the account dormant since...
...Chicago's Merchandise Mart is larger, but it is also an exhibition hall as well as an office building...
From these two statements, and particularly the latter, an amazing story has been concocted by some elements of the professional press. Yesterday's Boston Record-American screamed in 90-point type on page one: "Drug Black Mart Bared at Harvard." Most of the other papers used a little more sense, but the story was given heavy play in the press and on the radio...