Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Conned Twice. No sooner had he married the President's youngest sister, Jean, in 1956 (Cardinal Spellman officiated), than Smith got involved in the Kennedy political fortunes. In 1958, he left his job as vice president of his own family's tugboat firm to run the Boston headquarters of Jack's Massachusetts Senate campaign. Up to then, Smith's only political connection was through his grandfather, William E. Cleary, who built the tugboat fortune and 40 years ago served three terms in Congress. Steve caught on to politics fast. Said a veteran of that first...
Lovely Rival. King Hassan even produced a rival for Jackie in his lovely young sister, Princess Lalla Nezha, 22, who was greeted with a bouquet of red roses. All the proper protocol was laid on, from a 50-yd. red carpet to a spit and polish honor guard. "We are proud to welcome you. Your Majesty," said the President to the King. "Your country was the first to recognize the U.S. in the most difficult days of our Revolution."* King Hassan responded by saying that he had come to the U.S. "to renew my acquaintance with your people, to meet...
...Academie accepts no more than 30 girls a year. Members of the current crop include Henry Ford's daughter Anne (whose sister Charlotte graduated with the premiere class in 1961), Melinda Fuller, granddaughter of onetime Massachusetts Governor Alvan Fuller, and Genevieve du Pont of the Delaware dynasty. Tuition for the eight-month course is $2,800, covers the girls' social outings to theaters, balls, concerts and weekend house parties (escorted vacation cruises to Greece or Egypt are optional). Students do not live in dormitories, but (at an additional cost of close to $2.000) are placed with families...
...guided tour of the Pasadena paradise is indeed fascinating. The pattern of the perfect life is disturbed by nothing but slight cases of alcoholism or mismating outside the tribe. Mother worries that Decker might get hooked on a starlet and bring on Jerry Giesler with a paternity case. Sister has already married a mathematician from Cal Tech, who appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies-is a martini-oiled mechanism, a country...
...Bach. They went well, so we did the sonatas of Handel-which are bad Bach. They sold; so next we did the sonatas of Telemann-bad Handel. Then came the works of Frederick the Great-which are awful Telemann. We even considered the music of Frederick's sister Amelia-terrible Frederick the Great...