Word: merrywood
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...like an enormous compliment to the Kennedy family: "We like you! We really like you!" And the kids could shyly say, "Thanks, we're so surprised. We never dreamed people would pay $1.5 million dollars for a set of coasters Gore Vidal once threw at Bobby Kennedy at Merrywood...
Shortly after her divorce, Nina Vidal married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a wealthy broker and the squire of Merrywood, a handsome Virginia estate. Despite the trauma that this union occasioned, it gave Vidal two tenuous family connections that were to affect his career: Auchincloss's mother was Emma Brewster Jennings, a descendant of Aaron Burr; and, after he and Vidal's mother were divorced, Auchincloss married Mrs. Janet Bouvier, the mother of the future Jacqueline Kennedy...
Things weren't so merry around Merrywood three years ago when Washington Stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss sold the 46-acre estate on the Potomac Palisades to a syndicate that wanted to build three 17-story apartment buildings there. Desecration! fumed Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, arguing that the hills that "Hughdee's" stepdaughter, Jackie Kennedy, had loved as a child were also one of the nation's "great scenic resources." A resourceful Interior Department headed off the deal, and now Washington Investor C. Wyatt Dickerson, who recently bought the place for $650,000, plans to turn Merrywood into...
...looked with nostalgia at the photograph of Merrywood [May 11, where "from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis and gamboled about." From the time I was 10 (seven years before the Bouvier arrival), I also swam, played tennis, etc. there, and it is sad to see the old place...
True. Bobby Kennedy, who lives just a short piece down the road from Merrywood, discreetly avoided taking public sides. But Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. another McLean resident, was on record with: "Since the time of our first President, we as a nation have recognized the Potomac Palisades as a great scenic resource, and over the years considerable effort has been expended to preserve its beauty." Others have been more outspoken, and quiet McLean has been alive with protest meetings and petitions. Griped Radio Commentator Edward P. Morgan, whose nightly spiel is paid for by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ("Thirteen...