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From her Manhattan hospital bed in mid-October, the late Eleanor Roosevelt wrote her last column for McCall's Magazine. Titled "Mrs. Roosevelt's Christmas Sampler," it listed the holiday customs she loved best. Her favorite carol: Silent Night; her favorite Christmas benevolence: "To invite a stranger from a foreign country, who would be alone, to our Christmas dinner"; her favorite Christmas cards: "Adlai Stevenson's beautifully illuminated messages'"; her favorite ornament: "A little angel that has topped our family tree since my children were babies"; and her favorite Christmas recipe: a bowl of eggnog, laced...
Into that vacuum stepped Louis Harris, pet political pollster both to Jack Kennedy and to Wagner. Harris, who considers himself less a vote sampler than a political analyst, soon got to analyzing...
...Well," sighed one tape watcher in the Beverly Hills office of Ira Haupt & Co., "now I've got 30% less than I had last Friday." A young Chicago couple stared glumly at their living room wall, where a petit point sampler proclaimed "God Bless Fairchild Camera." Across the land, 15 million investors reluctantly emerged from a dreamland of perpetual capital gains and grimly focused their attention on the citadel of U.S. capitalism at Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan...
...serve the community of men the way a pendulum serves a clock. Barth's theological output is so vast that only a handful of men have ever read all his works. But for those willing to try them, his books offer wisdom and wit as well. A sampler of Barth's views...
...from New York with a cargo of famous stars and freeloaders (a redundancy in part). Zsa Zsa was there, and so was Fashion Model Cristina Paolozzi, famed for her recent bare-breasted exposure in Harper's Bazaar, and now doing penance in the form of a needlepoint sampler that reads NUTS TO YOU ("For Mother," she explained). For dancing, there was Society Bandleader Meyer Davis ($7,500 for four hours of music-$1,000 per hour overtime); for super glamour there were the Prince and Princess of Windisch-Graetz, Lady Sassoon, the Earl of Hardwicke, Baroness Peggy de Gripenberg...