Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortnight ago, Caroline had been registered at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., where Jackie went. The day after the diplomatic reception, she got an opportunity to see what other Miss Porter's girls look like - later. To celebrate a successful building drive, Jackie Kennedy had invited Farmington alumnae to an afternoon tea. The girls were delighted by an unexpected visit from the President, who paused long enough to shake some hands, pose for pictures, and whisper to his wife: "You've got lipstick on your teeth...
...Ship of Fools, Porter (7, last week...
...with not particularly welcome applications ever since Mrs. Kennedy became First Lady. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis S. French, who became headmaster and headmistress in 1954, are holding Farmington's thin, well-read line. Even Caroline Kennedy will not get in unless her grades are good, for although Miss Porter's weighs a girl's ancestry with respect, says Headmaster French, it also searches for bright scholars "who have no connection with the past." But Caroline is undaunted. She reportedly informed her father not long ago that in her White House play school (where...
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A German passenger ship bound from vera Cruz to Bremerhaven in 1931 becomes a moving and despairing allegory of the human condition...
FICTION 1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (5) 3. The Bull from the Sea, Renault (2) 4. The Fox in the Attic Huges (3) 5. Devil Water Seton (4) 6. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (7) 7. Ship of Fools, Porter (6) 8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee 9. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten (9) 10. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter...