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...swank Lodge at Smugglers' Notch in Stowe, Vermont, bent on a little weekend schussing, went Freshman Senator Teddy Kennedy, Wife Joan, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others near and dear. It was all sparkling fun, until Teddy, in presumably unphotogenic après-ski togs, was confronted outside the Smugglers' Den lounge by Roving Photographer Philip N. Lawson of the Vermont Sunday News. Elections over, the Senator declined to have his picture taken with a roving beauty queen, but Lawson clicked anyway. Bugged by the shutter. Teddy reddened, and the incident swiftly snowballed. Sunday News Publisher William Loeb...
...very swank, even by Kennedy standards, but Signora Agnelli might well have been unawed. Back home in Italy, the Agnelli country house in the Piedmont was built for a king (Sardinia's Victor Amadeus II), and kings still architecturally outdo presidents. Even the summer house on the Cote d'Azur was once the plaisance of Belgium's Leopold II. the last of his country's kings who could afford to act like one. The Agnellis, though new to the Kennedy circle, seem dear friends already; it was on their yacht (82 ft.) that Jackie spent many...
Louis, Drake, Tulsa, North Texas State), has never crossed Coach Juckers mind-or so he says. But it sometimes occurs to rival coaches. "I saw Cincinnati beat Kansas," says Joe Swank, whose own Tulsa team boasts a 5-0 record, "and they just looked invincible. I couldn't sleep after I watched them play...
...called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room urinal, affixed it to his lapel and crashed a swank party as a newspaperman. But of more lasting interest was the hotel's impeccable service, a concept originally executed by, and credited to. the Beverly Hills's Hernando Courtright, who bought the hotel in 1943. Current owner Ben Silberstein, who took over ten years later, has sedulously maintained...
...called "St. Grottlesex"* schools are supposedly ultra-swank as well as churchy (Episcopal). Yet Kent treats its 292 boys like poverty-vowing lay brothers. They make beds, wait tables, scrub floors, do K.P., and the consequent saving is passed on in the form of sliding-scale tuition. Despite its monasticism, Kent recently opened a "coordinate" school for 200 girls, who even attend some classes with boys...