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...grad this June. But right now, says Banker David's daughter Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 20, want to enjoy some of the things that go with the name before I stop being a Rockefeller." So for "a lark," she's accepted an invitation to be Queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Va., next month...
Commander Samuel Francis du Pont helped set up the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845, and during the Civil War led the task force that took Port Royal, S.C., for the North. Artillery Major Henry Algernon du Pont got the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinguished gallantry in the Shenandoah Valley. Henry du Pont (1812-89) had a thing about fences; folks used to say that he would put up a $4,000 enclosure to fence in a $2,000 pasture. And then there was "Uncle Fred" (Alfred Victor du Pont II), who in 1893 was shot to death...
Singing a laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...
...Shenandoah,Iowa...
...said no, and since Daddy is Commander in Chief of just about everything there is in the U.S. these days, Lucy Baines Johnson, 16, didn't get to see the Beatles at all. But L.BJ. did agree to allow his younger daughter to serve as queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in April. Small recompense, but Lucy-or Luci, as she now likes to spell it-was thrilled. "I've never been anything," said she, "not even a duchess...