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...Pert as a field lily, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's eldest daughter Kathleen went forth to meet the photographers on the occasion of her 16th birthday, wearing a size 8, art-nouveau print shift. Right beside her stood another of the Kennedy birthday girls, wearing an identical, size 8 print shift, with a pair of white-mesh mod stockings thrown in for kicks. "You can say I'm 72," joked Rose Kennedy, "but please don't mention that it came from me." So the Boston Globe printed that she was 72 and didn...
...those rates, some clients might feel piqued that the "temporaries" do not always look like the pert young things Kelly has been sending to plant gladioli and publicity in city parks under something called "the Kelly Beautification Program." The average temporary is a housewife, ex-secretary, somewhere "over 35" in age (one Seattle Kelly Girl is 81). But employers figure they come out about even with the temporaries, since permanent employees are expensive to recruit and command fringe benefits that add a third or more to basic wage rates...
Died. Eugenia Childs Westmoreland, 81, mother of General William Westmoreland, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, a tiny (5 ft.), genteel Southern lady who recently greeted talk of her son as presidential timber with a pert, "Oh my, he's too young to be President"; of congestive heart failure; in Columbia...
...would also join them for lunch down the block at the Hotel Algonquin's fabled conversational Klatsch, the Round Table; among its other members were such quotables as Alexander Woollcott, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman. She was pert, provocative, blinking her hazelgreen eyes or raising her pencil-arched eyebrows until they touched the line of her dark bangs as she delivered her acerbic ripostes...
...herself, and eventually she loses a girl friend by stealing a boy friend. As the junior vamp, Canada's Genevieve Bujold also walks off with the show. Featured in Alain Resnais' La Guerre Est Finie (TIME, Feb. 3), Bujold at 24 displays a confident talent and a pert, dark beauty that suggests the imminent emergence of a star...