Word: palme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Academy of Design that day in 1894, the U.S. flag flew at half-mast. The artist who had just died was called a "giant," and the academy spared itself nothing to give him a giant's funeral. The casket of silver and velvet was lost among palm leaves and flowers, a bust of the dead man stood on a pedestal, and the grand stairway was draped in black. All this was fitting for an age that loved a good show, but it could not have been more inappropriate for the most unobtrusive of painters, George Inness...
Jackie made the most of Lester Lanin's music. To the tune of Never on Sunday, she tripped a nimble fox trot with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister...
...York World-Telegram's Charles Ventura on Jan. 20, 1947: "Jack (John F.) Kennedy, who won the Navy's highest award for heroism by swimming through a sea of flame to rescue two of his PT boat crew, has just been voted another outstanding decoration. Palm Beach's cottage colony wants to give [him] its annual Oscar for achievement in the field of romance . . . giving Durie Malcolm Desloge the season's outstanding rush. The two were inseparable at all social functions and sports events. They even drove down to Miami to hold hands at football games...
...Henry Huelskamp, who was the child's nurse at the time, says that Durie met Jack Kennedy in the winter of 1946-1947 in Palm Beach. No admirer of Durie, she recalls that Durie was then being squired by "at least three or four other eligible men." Mrs. Huelskamp derides the notion of any marriage. Says she: "We didn't see enough of him to give me the idea that anything like that could have happened. She was very frank with me, and after all I have eyes, and it doesn't strike me that...
...previously I was married for a short time to John Bersbach and then to Firmin Desloge, by whom I had a daughter who's 20 now. I know the President's family well and have known him for a long time, and saw him years ago at Palm Beach and once went with him and his family to an Orange Bowl game in Miami. I've rarely seen him since." She said that she has never discussed the Jack-and-Durie matter with the Kennedys because "it's too embarrassing...