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...because of the inner cancellation of each other's certitudes. The composite program, prudentially polished, has every virtue in it but life. Where there is no personal vision, the people perish." And the late Whitney Griswold put it thus: "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam...
...conducted at a formal House dinner, the Lowell Senior Common Room presented an endowment for the Elliot and Mary Perkins Scholarship to the President and Fellows and unveiled a portrait of the retiring Master. When the curtain was drawn from around the painting, a copy of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was revealed first, and this removed, a still more startling apparition appeared--a likeness of Perkins, painted by Walter Stuempfig...
...France can keep Mona Lisa. Sweden can have Ingrid, Italy can keep Gina. Monaco can keep Grace. Washington doesn't need them." And why not? "Because," drawled Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, "we have Lindy Boggs." TOSSing a wingding of a birthday party for vivacious Lindy Boggs, wife of House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, were Lyndon and his Lady Bird, who is fast becoming one of Washington's mostes' hostesses. A heart-shaped cake proclaimed Lindy "Everybody's Sweetheart," and the Veep added further encomiums with a gold-tooled album inscribed "Woman of the Year Every...
...brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
Reflecting the Kennedys' current disenchantment with De Gaulle, Bobby Kennedy preferred to recall the Mona Lisa's Florentine extraction, looked at the two Pollaiuolos and murmured: "This makes three great Italian paintings which have been loaned to us this year...