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...next night Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on TV for an hour-long intimate glimpse, taped earlier by NBC and sponsored by Crest toothpaste (thereby causing wags to wonder if Ipana, Stripe and Pepsodent would demand equal time). The First Lady won headlines with her plaint that the fishbowl life of the White House was "very hard" on the children, that she was striving to provide "normal" and "private" lives for them. As for daughter Caroline, "Someday she is going to have to go to school, and if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect...
...Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because it meant higher taxes and reduced pensions. Belgium's voters were ready to criticize politicians of every stripe, in a sullen style reminiscent of the ugly, empty mood of Frenchmen in the last stages of the Fourth Republic...
...duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia, as everyone had a last fond sit on the zebra-stripe upholstery. Beaming throughout was John Perona, El Morocco's owner, and Journal-American Society Columnist "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini) pronounced the eulogy, quoting Lucius Beebe: "El Morocco and Perona are the products of emergent evolution. Nobody foresaw that through the agency of a constantly diminishing dance floor...
...mostly lectured through the Roaring Twenties, in 1930 took over the New Leader, then the official mouthpiece of the U.S. Socialist Party. He turned it into a sounding board for nearly all shades of liberal opinion-staunchly excluding Reds, Trotskyites and totalitarians of any stripe. On his minuscule budget, Editor Levitas could not afford to pay his contributors, telling them: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." With that approach, and with his policy of letting them write whatever they wished, he attracted such as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, Herbert Morrison and Walter Reuther...
...these social distinctions and celebrity gradations are the patient work of headwaiters, who eat $5 bills while riding home on the subway. Right behind them are the club owners themselves, notably John Perona of El Morocco, a proud, tough member of the 8,000,000, whose daytime chalk-stripe suits shine like awnings in the sun, and the Stork's Sherman Billingsley, who, like any nightclub snob, is forever practicing the difficult feat of looking down while looking...