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...dinner with some 20 close friends in the White House. By presidential order, White House Pastry Chef Ferdinand Louvat had whipped up a twelve-pound sponge cake, sprinkled with sugar wedding bands. Inlaid in the frosting were nine of the President's favorite photos from the family scrapbook, including a honeymoon picture taken in the floating gardens of Xochimilco, near Mexico...
...going to run." Moos, who used to write speeches for President Eisenhower, reached over, picked a piece of paper from the coffee table, wrote Scranton's last five words, dated the paper and said: "I'm going to keep this for my scrapbook...
...switched to a history major and intends to go on to law school. "I will have to quit playing some day," he says. "I've got to be prepared. That's the problem with professional athletes-they retire at 30 with nothing more than a scrapbook full of clippings. It's hard to live more than half your life on some old pieces of newspaper...
...sexual passion between them. But once they were married, Shaw grew to depend heavily on her protective, intelligent presence. A gifted hostess, Charlotte became as well an acute, sympathetic critic of her husband's work and even helped suggest to him the themes of several successful plays. In scrapbook and ledger, she kept close tally of Shaw's growing fame and fortune, and went so far as to answer the love letters he continued to receive from impassioned female admirers...
...plan had been to distribute the toys after Jackie's departure. But in the warmth of her welcome, Jackie melted, began giving out giant lollipops, stuffed animals and goodies higgledy-piggledy. And in return for her presence, the children gave her a scrapbook containing their own drawings. In it, there were some poignant captions, including, "My caseworker is coming to see me." and "This is my house; this is my caseworker's house...