Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is really disturbing in l'affaire Stevenson [Dec. 14] is the fact that something said in a top-secret council can leak out to anyone, including "Old Pal" Bartlett. Any time such a council meets, differences of opinion are expected, but when a final decision is made, it must be accepted and carried...
Bartlett is the old pal who introduced Jack to Jackie, who ushered at their wedding, who regularly spends weekends with the Kennedys at Glen Ora. "The President is not a source of mine," insists Bartlett. But other Washington newsmen-doubting that those weekends are spent entirely talking about old times-look at Bartlett's work as a conscious or subconscious mirror of Kennedy thinking. "If anybody else had written that piece but Bartlett," says a White House aide, "nothing would have been said...
Fortnight ago, in a Houston hospital, Walker, 64, was told that the "fish hook" that burned in his throat was cancer. Facing surgery to remove his larynx, and chilled by the shadows he saw, he made his choice. He phoned an aged and loyal pal in New York. "Get my obituary ready." he said. Next morning, his wife Ruth, returning from an errand, saw him on the porch of the cabin where he kept his books and his shotgun. Would he like a lift to the main house? "No," said Stanley Walker. "You come back a little later." When...
...film. Debbie Reynolds' dog will soon go dough-eyed over Red Heart Dog Food in My Six Loves. In The Manchurian Candidate, the camera lingers long on the marquee of Jilly's Restaurant, as if it were the only one in New York. The owner is a pal of Star Frank Sinatra, and the plug was merely a favor...
...didn't), cultivated a voodoo priest ordained in spirit vibrations, and passed one weekend with Novelist John Dos Passes discussing the works of Daphne du Maurier because Gilbert had recently read her but never Dos Passes. Each day Gilbert studied the Wall Street Journal, which a thoughtful pal in New York sent down...