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Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
...enterprising 19th century Corsican named Angelo Mariani had the notion of blending the coca leaf with fine wine, which he marketed under the name of Vin Mariani. Mariani collected endorsements from Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, President McKinley and the Kings of Spain, Greece, and Norway and Sweden, as well as such literary luminaries as Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. French Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, swore that if he had only savored Vin Mariani earlier, he would have built the old girl hundreds of meters higher...
Last week too came the announcement that TIME Washington Correspondent Neil MacNeil will receive the first Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress. MacNeil has covered the Capitol for TIME since 1958. Says he: "The job is a reward itself. Which, of course, makes being honored for doing it doubly pleasant...
...Spending. As he pledged, Reagan proposed reductions in an extraordinarily broad range of federal activities (see following story). In percentage terms some of the cuts would be very deep, and in dollar amounts they recall the celebrated witticism of the late Everett McKinley Dirksen: "A billion here, a couple of billion there-first thing you know it adds up to be real money." Many of the reductions would indeed be in the $1 billion-to-$2 billion range next fiscal year, and they add up to very real money: an estimated $41.4 billion in fiscal 1982, $123.8 billion by fiscal...
...dining room of the Hay-Adams Hotel. Maybe they knew it, maybe not, but surely they felt the heritage of two who used to live on the site: Henry Adams, author and descendant of Presidents, and John Hay, a personal secretary to Lincoln and later Secretary of State to McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The Reagans nibbled on Dover sole and an omelette where Stuart Symington, 79, the erect and handsome former Senator from Missouri, used to court his first wife, Evelyn Wadsworth, granddaughter...