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...world, this is his first for TIME and first of a real, live girl. The others have all been imaginary. The sculpture took three weeks to complete, and Gallo personally brought it from Champaign, Ill., to New York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane. "The hostesses came on the intercom," says Gallo, "and announced that they were pleased to have Myra Breckinridge on the flight with...
...passionately into Jack's new political career. The founder spent some $50,000 for the young naval veteran's first congressional campaign. In 1952, when Jack was thinking of running for Governor of Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy persuaded him to try for Henry Cabot Lodge's Senate seat. "When you've beaten him," said Joe, "you've beaten the best. Why try for something less?" The Kennedy forces spent $500,000, dislodged the Senator by 70,000 votes...
...heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to keep his money away from "troubled places"-he had moved out of the politically troublesome liquor business in 1946-and he turned down deals that he formerly would have snapped...
...others, I had had my tacky bit of existential drama. It had taken place right out there on Canal Road. And now, here it was five in the morning, and I was forcing my recalcitrant body to sleep in the crowded quarters of the car's front seat. The guy with the bullhorn and Frank's white Rambler-they must serve as my moral equivalent of war. Second-rate substitutes of course, but then, you'll have to admit, these are second-rate times we are living...
However, the presence of burly police under orders not to let anyone leave and then re-renter the dining room, made the presentation impossible. Instead, Jeff Seder '70 rose from his seat and interrupted the beginning of Master Alvin M. Papenheimer, Jr's introduction to the President's speech...