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...White House for a long, serious talk with the President. This time, he came bearing gifts: two Pakistani rugs for the President, a painting for Mrs. Kennedy, a doll for Caroline and two silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon as it is completed. At noon Ayub addressed Congress (see above), moved taciturn House Speaker Sam Rayburn to remark: "We have been in the presence of a man with iron in his backbone and brains...
...part of the Mirisch brothers' original fortune came from one of the world's largest popcorn concessions, which is owned by the Mirisches and operated in 850 theaters and driveins around the country, under the control of still another brother, Irving, 57. Sons of a New York tailor, the Mirisches all worked in the movie business from their teens on, starting as office boys and ushers, rising to be bookers. theater managers, producers (Brother Walter put out a dozen of the Bomba. the Jungle Boy films). When they decided to go independent, they "shook a little" with apprehension...
...wrong; the third step is to learn that, if one is really "secure," one can afford even to be flashy. This interminable dialectic of snobbery can produce genuine anxiety, as is shown by the innumerable cases of people who frantically seek to hide their families, change their names, tailor their accents ? and wind up losing their identities...
Popularity has come to her with a rush. Daughter of a Sydney tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
...weighing 200 lbs., wearing a rose-gold watch, dark suits and French cuffs, Joe Levine at 55 suggests a sort of low-ceilinged Harry Golden. He is low-key, as well - a surprisingly quiet businessman who was born in a Boston slum, learned about money and gambling from his tailor stepfather, "who made $4 a week and liked to play poker." He quit school at 14, became a drummer for a dress company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older brother. Drifting on, he lost...