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Even beyond his immediate household circle, the President remains a family man. A brother, sisters and brothers-in-law have flocked to Washington in convenient concentration, all willing to help the President with his work and eager to help him relax after hours. Bobby is still Kennedy's right-hand man. Sargent Shriver Jr.-Eunice Kennedy's husband-is head of the Peace Corps. Stephen Smith -Jean Kennedy's husband-is special assistant to the head of the White House "Crisis Center." Actor Peter Lawford-Pat Kennedy's husband-helped pay off Democratic debts...
...morning last week, 26 governors of the American Stock Exchange steeled themselves for an unpleasant task. An hour later the deed was done. Out of his $75,000-a-year job as president of Amex went genial, silver-haired Edward Theodore McCormick, 50. Out along with McCormick went his right-hand man and chief adviser, Exchange General Counsel Michael E. Mooney...
Miss deBeers had started to cross Kirkland St., going towards the Yard, when the bicycle, coming between the right-hand curb and the line of cars waiting for the stop light at Oxford and Kirkland, struck...
...Free Hand. Moving into his spacious office in the grey, temple-fagaded Treasury building next door to the White House, Dillon called for every document since 1789 that provided a job description of the Secretary's portfolio, then set out to make the department his own. Unlike Secretary of State Rusk, Dillon did not have his top echelon of aides picked in advance by Kennedy. He took advantage of his free hand to build a Treasury staff that moneymen rate as possibly the best since the days of Alexander Hamilton. Dillon's right-hand...
...left-hander who works carefully up from the lower right-hand corner so as not to smear his work, Mauldin generally has finished next day's cartoon by 6, personally escorts it to the engraving department ("I would never trust a copy boy with it") before "heading out for the Bismarck, a Post-Dispatch hangout, for a relaxing martini or two with friends. But his thoughts are never far from the job. His second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime...