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Carter's Good Ole Boys...
From your article on Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell [June 6]. President Carter's staff appears to be populated by mere "good ole boys." But Carter did not get to be President by hiring political ignoramuses. Jordan and Powell obviously have plenty of savvy-they may break the rules by failing to be stuffed shirts, but they did not break the cardinal rule by letting their man lose...
...BEAUTY QUEEN. Nancy White, 22, of the University of Mississippi, a public-administration major, planned to go to law school. Then she won a string of beauty titles, including Miss University at Ole Miss and first alternate to Miss Mississippi, so she began eyeing a more glamorous career in television. This summer she is entering graduate school at Ole Miss with a radio/TV fellowship. She has landed her first journalistic job-as studio manager of the university's closed circuit cable television station. "It's an exposure-conscious field and there are a lot of attractive women...
...audience. "It was like we had hit twelve home runs at Yankee Stadium." Naturally there is talk about repeating the evening as a television special, but Mary is reluctant. "I'd like to keep it as a memory, as one of my best memories of this little ole planet...
Those two rakish characters with derbies and cane are not refugees from a ragtime show but Jimmy Carter's good ole boys Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell. When Rolling Stone Reporter Joe Klein suggested that Ham and Jody dress up like Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for a May 19 article on "The White House Whiz Kids," the pair figured, why not? Photographer Annie Leibovitz picked up some odds and ends from a costume shop and the final ensemble wound up looking more like a cross between Butch Cassidy and The Sting...