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Jack Kennedy smilingly informed Mrs. Sprayberry that she was the millionth visitor to the White House this year, an all-time high. While the children stood speechless ("For the first time in their lives," their mother said wryly), the President gave them an autographed photo of himself, observed that the White House is "virtually the only home of a head of state in the world where the people of the country are welcome as visitors." Then the President of the U.S. went back to the more somber work that his office demands...
Manors & Estates. Outdoor living is also stressed at Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's 15-room, seven-acre estate, Hickory Hill, in McLean. Va. Once the Civil War headquarters of Union General George McClellan. Hickory Hill has two swimming pools, a tennis court, pony stables and, says one visitor, "the only treehouse in the world that looks as if it were designed by an architect." A major attraction of the house is the huge kitchen, which might have been lifted out of the pages of Gone With the Wind; it has no chrome or eye-level ovens...
...AMERICAN VISITOR (247 pp.)-Joyce Gary-Harper...
...news more intelligible. Gary fought in the Nigeria Regiment in World War I, later served as a magistrate dealing with the everyday crises of tribal life. Out of this experience came Mister Johnson (published in 1939), by all odds the best novel ever written about Africa, and An American Visitor (issued in 1933 but only now published in the U.S.), which is not up to Mister Johnson, but proves again that Africa reached Gary's pages through his pores...
...American Visitor is something of a misnomer as a title. Marie is interesting only as an American abstraction, a believer in the view that what is savage is unspoiled. What is best in the book is its ring of truth. The natives and the British whites speak and act with absolute naturalness. Gary describes the Nigerian landscape, soldiers on the march, and a tribal attack with casual excellence. And he misses few of the ironies of a situation in which imperfect Christians try to perfect the savages...