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...Church College-where he developed a taste, which he still indulges, for Savile Row suits and old port. After a brief turn as a Kansas City lawyer, he went into Government service in 1938, as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings. During World War II, he helped select German economic targets for air raids and sabotage, as chief of the Economic Warfare Division of the U.S. embassy in London...
...Early American. For a better view of the ocean, Joan Kennedy and her decorator had one wall removed and replaced with sliding glass doors. Two rooms remain to be decorated, but Joan and Ted Kennedy are waiting until the birth of their second child in November before they select the colors for the baby's room...
With this upsetting overture, the curtain in Venice's handsome La Fenice theater rose one night last week for one of the wackiest premieres in operatic history. Presumably, the select group of invited critics and music lovers came with the expectation of hearing The Spanish Lady and The Roman Cavalier, a retitle for Alessandro Scarlatti's long-forgotten comic opera, Scipio in Spain, composed in 1714. What they got was Scarlatti heavily laced with Salvador Dali, theatrical effects, erotic dancers and leering double-entendres...
...diplomatic experience, was obviously an excellent choice for Kennedy's purpose. They had first met in 1956 at Harvard, when Dillon was grand marshal at the 25th reunion of his class and Senator Kennedy the winner of an honorary degree. After the ceremony, they dropped by the select Spec Club (both men were members) to chat, later became friends and occasional golfing companions. But when President-elect Kennedy asked to come to Dillon's house (Dillon thought it should be the other way around) and came through several days later with an offer, Dillon, as a good Republican...
...trip to Warsaw. Since there are no private art galleries in Poland and no private collectors, Selz made the rounds of artists' studios, as well as the museums, libraries and courthouses where the state hangs the art it buys directly from the artist. When the time came to select the paintings, Selz ran into a snag: the government overextended its helpfulness by wanting to exercise final authority on what...