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...Kennedy returned from a Hawaii vacation. "She reacted strenuously to the magazine idea," said Evan Thomas. "The promotion, the fireworks-it was bothering her emotionally." She was even more deeply disturbed after former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, a neighbor of Manchester's near the Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Conn., saw the author's agreement with Look. Goodwin, realizing that Manchester had assured the magazine of no interference from the Kennedys, took alarm. He and Manchester flew up to Hyannis Port with Look's publisher, Gardner Cowles, and there Jackie gave them an ear-searing lecture...
...Louvre in 16 lines, half of which are devoted to its snack bar, and his principal comment about the ruins of ancient Rome is that "there's a remarkable permanency about the Colosseum." Fielding's forte-is leading his readers ("the normal Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Middletown, U.S.A.") gently by the hand to a real wingding of a time. He directs them to restaurants that will give them the red carpet and offers them personal introductions to a champagne magnate. He devotes whole sections to showing them how not to make fools of themselves, how to avoid...
Died. John Joseph Broderick, 72, the toughest cop on Broadway in the turbulent 1930s; of a heart attack; in Middletown...
...MIDDLETOWN, VA., Wayside Theater: The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's dramatization of the struggle of Annie Sullivan to unlock the mind of the deaf-mute and blind child Helen Keller has become an enduring parable of perseverance and courage...
Blue Books. Chicago-born John Macy himself could well be first on the list for any number of Administration posts. He was a Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes scholar nominee at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.,entered Government service through the National Institute of Public Affairs, served as a personnel staff officer in the Army Air Forces. In 1947 he was given a 90-day assignment to run personnel and organization for the Atomic Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N. Mex., stayed on to act as Los Alamos town manager as well until 1951. He joined the Civil Service Commission...