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...weather from jetliner captains ("One pilot said it was nice and steady, but even he didn't seem to be very happy on less than four jets"), and gassed up at a small field. Then it was off across the ocean, with her navigator, a 49-year-old spinster, charting the route. Eleven hours and 1,828 miles later, the Beechcraft buzzed into Shannon. No reason to fret, said Mrs. Hart, who learned to fly at 53 -after all, she had done it all before nine years...
Since Perle's day, Betty has kept her reputation and her status too. A tall, slim blonde and a lifelong spinster, she devotes full time to her work, rarely ending her day before the small hours. Having now weathered two Administrations, Betty prefers the livelier social climate brought by the Kennedys, even if it does exclude her. From her visionary chair on the outside, she appraises that climate with precise intelligence. "Washington society," she says, "is dominated by the search for power and the desire to bask in its glow." Even her friends agree that in the vanguard...
...Susannah, who sits in her grandfather's lap, was to die of scarlet fever at the age of nine. John Singleton Copley Jr., shown embracing his mother, became Lord Chancellor of England. One of his sisters (at right, in the painting) devoted her life to him, dying a spinster at the age of 95. The other, Elizabeth, the determined little figure standing in the center, went back to America. She married a Bostonian, as did her daughter Martha, who, as Mrs. Charles Amory,* took possession of the painting in 1864 and brought it back to Boston with...
...been shunted to another job in the department, and denied access to the Estes files, because he knew too much about the case. Hales's transfer led to one of the unseemliest scenes ever enacted in the somber corridors of the Agriculture Department. Miss Mary Jones, a nervous spinster of 51, who had been Hales's secretary for eleven years, was upset about the prospect of being transferred to a new boss. After being out sick for two days, she came back and went to Hales's old office to get her leave record signed. What happened...
...introduction by her third cousin, Constance Babington-Smith. Numerous notable literary lights were scandalized when Letters to a Friend was published in England last October. Said Author Rebecca West: "It made me want to vomit." But according to Editor Babington-Smith, Father Johnson and Rose Macaulay's spinster sister, Jean, felt that the letters might be "of inestimable value and help to many...