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...Harry W. Rodgers III, a prominent Maryland land developer and longtime political fund raiser. Described by associates as "everybody's pal," Rodgers supported the Democratic candidate for President in 1964 and 1968, then joined Democrats for Nixon last year. TIME has learned that the Justice Department considered prosecuting him for a possibly illegal campaign contribution in 1972. Rodgers promptly made these difficulties known to the White House, where W. Richard Howard, an assistant to then Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson, fired off a memo to John Dean asking him to go to bat for Rodgers at the Justice Department. Rodgers...
...office in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Library and on the L.B.J. Ranch. "It seemed only right that much of our time in Texas was spent on the move," says Angelo. "In her White House years I had traveled almost 100,000 miles covering Lady Bird in splendid pal aces and even more splendid wildernesses. This time the questions I had to ask were deeply personal, but she talked as perceptively as always, with a poetic turn of phrase, unabashed candor and an unquelled sense of joy. She is a truly remarkable woman...
Divorced. Zeppo Marx, 72, the youngest Marx Brother (real name: Herbert), who quit the madcap vaudeville and movie team in 1934 to become an actors' agent; and Barbara Marx, fortyish, former model and current golfing and tennis pal of Frank Sinatra and Vice President Spiro Agnew; after 14 years of marriage, no children; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...fortune in civilian life-though not without a little help from his friends. Waiting for him will be a $110,000 brick rambler in suburban Bethesda, Md., picked out by his wife Julie and her mother Pat Nixon but bought by C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's businessman pal. The Eisenhowers will pay an undisclosed amount of rent, thus allowing Bebe, who has made millions in real estate and other ventures, to write off some of the expenses on his house. Its value has already increased, thanks to the cozy living quarters that the Secret Service has built...
Married. Elaine Stritch, 47, vodka-voiced star of a clutch of Broadway musical comedies (Sail Away, Pal Joey, Company), not to mention more serious plays (Bus Stop) and the TV series My Sister Eileen; and John M. Bay, 45, Dublin-born actor who met the lady briefly in New York 15 years ago, then again in January while they were rehearsing for the London production of Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings; both for the first time; in London...