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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...
...operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers, the soaring cost of trees and festivities -this is only part of it. There is the problem of the Rich Relation who sprays the family with costly presents-how much reciprocity is necessary? There is the problem of the Marginal Pal who somewhere along the way has moved from the list for cards to the list for presents-who will be the first to quit...
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...