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...another chapter to John Kennedy's lengthening Lothario legend. The central figure this time is Mary Pinchot Meyer, an attractive, well-connected Washington artist who was the sister-in-law of Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. As former Post Vice President James Truitt recently told the National Enquirer, Kennedy's liaison with Meyer while he was President lasted nearly two years and even included some pot smoking in the White House bedroom. "She was not the kind of person to get into a dalliance," insists one old friend of the Meyer family. "This wasn't some...
Last week Truitt, now 54 and living in Mexico, added an occult dimension to the Kennedy-Meyer story. Four years after her death, Truitt says, he took Meyer's sister and brother-in-law, Toni and Ben Bradlee, to the small Maryland town of Westminster. There the trio allegedly made contact with the deceased artist with the help of a local medium. As Truitt tells it, Meyer described her burial place in Milford, Pa., then told her audience: "Jack is here. Bobby is here now"-meaning Robert Kennedy, who was killed earlier that year. If Meyer did talk, however...
...MYRNA R. TRUITT Brighton, Mass...
...Negro and white senior and junior high schools. As in Charlottesville, segregationist parents busily devised plans to provide classrooms in private homes and churches. But even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools," led by Unitarian Minister James Brewer and Realtor Irving Truitt, plumped publicly for "a strong and complete public-school system"-and if necessary, gradually integrated. The committee's key point: no city can pretend to attract or hold business, industry or federal installations, e.g., the Norfolk Naval Base, with public schools closed. Next move: to warn the Governor...
...over in pain, next evening underwent an appendectomy. He came out of the sodium pentathol with a bad case of hiccups, but nonetheless dictated to his wife Janet, a former United Press reporter. His file arrived in New York apace with those of Washington Correspondents Marshall Berger and James Truitt, Seattle Bureau Chief Robert Schulman and Seattle Correspondent Russell Sackett. All, and much other information, went into the making of this week's cover story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Dave & the Green Stuff...