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...marked contrast to the popular impression of Winthrop Rockefeller. At night he was a leading swinger in the pre-jet set; as the handsomest, rovingest Rockefeller, and the hardest to catch, he kept society mothers in an agony of hope. Pelle Aavatsmark, who still works for the Greater New York Fund, recalls fondly: "He ate lunch with the staff, and some nights after work he took us to his apartment and he would cook a meal, serve some drinks and have some fun. There would be girls around. Win was a ladies' man, you know. I didn...
ELUES ETUDE (Limelight). Oscar Peterson is still a topflight jazz pianist-a suave swinger with impeccable technique-crisp, fast and featherlight. But half these tracks catch him with a new drummer and bassist, and at times the trio seems merely to be making polite conversation. Oscar softly grunts and moans, rather surprising accompaniments for urbane offerings like Let's Fall in Love and The Shadow of Your Smile...
Almost from the day it opened, South Bay has gloried in its swinger reputation, and none of those who have moved in have any intention of letting the club down-least of all to outsiders. "It's exciting for a girl with all those men around," coos Social Worker Mary Lee Coe. "There's some student atmosphere -only much sexier than any college's." A secretary adds saucily: "This is a good place to be bad." New male arrivals have been known to hide the fact that they go to church, until they find they can safely...
...Force General Rene Barrientos is a swinger who flies his own DC-3, likes the girls so much that until very recently he maintained two families at once. Barrientos also has the kind of charisma that wins votes, and last week he was elected in a landslide as Bolivia's 47th President...
...late Senator's name still evokes crocodile fears in liberal British hearts), from which he emerges an embarrassed hero. Agog with admiration, a leggy, Kierkegaard-quoting girl bagpiper sweeps him off in her car for a premarital shakedown trip to Mexico, where she hopes to make a real swinger of him, but, depressed by his invincible fuddy-duddery, gives him up as an incurable limey. "The problem is," she tells him, "you're too kind. You carry too many woes. You get thrown all the time . . . It's all those coronations and that changing of the guard...