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...that Bui's reputation was known to Jacqueline Kennedy, who loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After 24 hours of thinking it over...
...flat rate (e.g., $22,000 for a DC-7C seating 79) to a group that collects the money from its members, handles the tickets and seating. For the economy-minded traveler, charter flights offer the equivalent of first-class service (meals include hors d'oeuvres, filet mignon, hard liquor, wine and champagne) at less than half the price, and a chance to travel with -or meet-friends. With more and more regular passengers taking jets, airlines are able to use their prop planes on the charter runs...
...Callas greeted Harry S. Truman with a courtly "I am honored," made her manners to Kansas Governor George Docking, who was also in the audience, even attended a post-concert party at the River Club where she danced with local millionaires and nibbled caviar snacks, an "almost blue" filet mignon and the "Delice Callas" dessert (peppermint ice cream, brandy-flavored chocolate, meringue, whipped cream, pistachio nuts...
Boston Democrats never had a more successful fund-raising dinner than last week's testimonial for John E. Powers, candidate for mayor. The faithful turned out 2,190 strong for filet mignon at $100 a plate, and by evening's end, Powers' nomination was put down as a political certainty. Nobody minded much that the state's top Democrat, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, was off on Senate business, for he was represented in the two seats of honor by brother Ted and by Powers himself, a leading Kennedy lieutenant. Perhaps it was better, thought some, that...
Largely responsible for last week's success was Dwight Eisenhower himself. Pink-cheeked and purple-tied, Ike found his head table seat like a Rotary Club regular, ate filet mignon (rare) while 480 paying guests struggled with minute steak. He chatted amiably with tablemates, helped pass along scribbled suggestions from the floor for his own postdessert question-and-answer session to Press Club President John V. Horner of the Washington Evening Star. No sooner did the questions start than radio mikes opened, three television cameras blinked red, and a daytime audience of millions began watching the second live...