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...Annapolis, Joe Curnane, a Massachusetts undertaker who looks after Jack Kennedy's political interests in Maryland, hooked his forefingers in his vest and put the heat on 48 Tidewater ward lords for sizable campaign contributions. "It gets better every day," he said. "I'd hate to see Maryland end up in the wrong column the day after the election. Don't miss the boat, gentlemen. Don't miss the boat...
...Vested Interest. In Draper, Utah, facing a firing squad, condemned Murderer James W. Rodgers was asked if he had a last request, replied: "Yes, I'd like a bulletproof vest...
Dealers speculated that if the picture's former owner, Lady Salmond (wife of R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Salmond), had offered it on the open market it would have brought well over $1,000,000, easily topping the $616,000 sale of Cezanne's Boy in Red Vest and the record $770,000 recently paid for Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. But few Englishmen can afford such sums. Had the picture left the country, the government would have collected an enormous estate duty on it. Lady Sal-mond's private sale to the National Gallery was taxfree...
...intimately involved in shaping the future, Anderson has an old-fashioned aura about him. He wears sober blue suits and a vest. He shuns Washington social life, preferring to spend his time with his family (Wife Ollie Mae, two sons, 23 and 19). He still treasures and quotes the faded poets, including Poe, Kipling and Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, whom he loved in his boyhood. In an age when public men tend to hedge their affirmations, he speaks out forthrightly for such notions as "the integrity of the dollar" and the value of individuality. A devout, Bible...
...belonged to the lady on the serving line who always tried for his tie with her ladle of gravy. So far, he had successfully fended her off, but she was becoming alarmingly accurate of late. Once, she had even managed to stain the fire dragon on his Japanese vest...