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...found himself obliged to discuss whether he and Rosalynn slept in single beds or a double bed in the White House. Walters can talk sense with Sadat, but at other times can ask the most banal of fan magazine questions: "What was your biggest thrill?" Her best performances must occur offscreen, when by exerting charm or power or both she persuades people in the news that they had better be interviewed first by her. Nobody has had such command over celebrities since the columnist Louella Parsons ruled Hollywood...
While the blacklist is forging a new sensitivity among fans and athletes, it is hardly delivering a crushing blow to front-rank competitors. It is supported largely by Third World nations, where comparatively few major international sporting events occur. Still, the blacklist is resented by many athletic figures as an unnecessary intrusion of politics into sport. "Barbaric," says U.S. Boxing Promoter Bob Arum, who has helped organize fights in South Africa. U.S. Tennis Player Brian Gottfried, who is not on the list, nonetheless calls it "a damned scandal...
...Lady Jane. The effect of the sentiment was compromised both by the fact that the Prince's betrothed is Lady Diana (Spencer) and that Lady Jane (Wellesley) is one of his former flames. "I feel a perfect fool," said Balfour, who was unnecessarily contrite. Slips of the tongue occur all the time. In Chicago recently, Governor James Thompson was introduced as "the mayor of Illinois," which was a step down from the time he was introduced as "the Governor of the United States." Not all such fluffs are so easy to take, however. During the primaries, Nancy Reagan telephoned...
...Fansler hustles a fellowship at Radcliffe and moves to Cambridge--Dunster House, specifically--to unravel the sordid tale. When Fansler makes it to Harvard, remarkably few events occur. The body of her story is little action and lots of chat and gossip and more chat--Robert Ludlum...
...another diner, Henry Kissinger. Then she traipsed around the place offering everyone a bit of her dessert" and "accidently knocked a glass of wine over one diner and started giggling instead of apologizing." Burnett demanded and got a retraction, in which the Enquirer admitted that the "events did not occur." Unsatisfied, she compared the Enquirer to "a hit-and-run driver who, when you're in the hospital, sends you a bouquet of crabgrass...