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Backstage at the Valley Forge Music Fair, Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, 45, had to take off his hat to Actress Mamie Van Doren, 30. The State G.O.P. gleaned $100,000 from a $100-a-plate Straw Hat Spectacular. And Mamie, an after-dinner treat in Silk Stockings, turned out to be the best dish of all, adding her own gossamer footnote to history. "My dressing room was very girly-girly," she reported later. "We didn't talk much. I thought he was a little flushed when he came in. Then I told him I was a Republican...
...brother, Tony Bill. At 21, and out of college, Tony is just a nice Jewish kid who has never tasted a martini or smoked a cigarette orit would seem -kissed a girl. He comes to live with Frank and get made over in the Sinatra image: a wardrobe of silk suits, spread-collar shirts, pointy shoes, and a set of attitudes that includes a taste for doxies and fancy barbers. Papa Cobb takes it pretty hard, but his highest loyalty is to his stomach. Peering into the refrigerator, he recoils at the sight of all the foil-wrapped leftovers, cries...
...pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly sipped from a white teacup that trailed a blue silk ribbon down through the leaves. Painted Coke bottles and sculpture that looked like tiny traffic accidents bloomed in the grass like crocuses...
...result was disaster. Louis chose a daughter of the Prince de Condé, whose family ran to madness as some families run to fat. Condé had a habit of barking convulsively-though at court he usually managed to stuff his mouth with a silk drapery when he felt such an attack coming...
...that I went on a leave of absence and haven't been back since." "We talked about the old 'B' building at River Rouge," said Ford. "I didn't know Joe had two brothers still working there." . . . Senator Barry Goldwater's tuxedo had watered silk lapels in a floral design. "One thing about owning a store," explained Goldwater, whose family operates Goldwaters in Phoenix, "you've got to wear the things that don't sell...