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Almost daily, the President hopped into his tan station wagon and drove around the 400-acre L.B.J. Ranch to gaze at his menagerie of wild deer, turkeys, antelope and buffalo. In his paneled office, Lady Bird put up a 6-ft.-high balsam tree, speckled with colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday...
...thud that Restaurateur Toots Shor, 61, made when he tumbled off the wagon echoed all over the gossip columns. "Booze is beautiful," Toots bellowed to Leonard Lyons. "Through booze I met two Chief Justices, 50 world champs, six Presidents and DiMaggio and Babe Ruth." Gregarious Toots hadn't had a belt for an astonishing nine months, ever since he took a dive on a Washington hotel floor last March and broke his hip. "I vowed not to take a drink until I could stand on my own two feet," Toots graveled in his Manhattan diner. But now that...
Icky Wine. The center of Julie's life, however, is Daughter Emma (pronounced Emmer by the family), a blue-eyed blonde who most resembles her father. Julie chauffeurs her to nursery school every day in her 1965 Falcon station wagon, and at least one day a week sends the nanny off and takes over completely. The two paint together (Julie took up oils this fall) or belt out duets of Daisy, Daisy, although Emma doesn't like to hear Mummy rehearse-which is why she has to practice while driving to work...
...move." (Pause.) "Will you move?" Step 2: the resister is told that his act violates Section 406 of the Pennsylvania penal code and "amounts to disorderly conduct." Once more he is asked, "Will you move?" Step 3: "You are now under arrest. Will you walk to the emergency patrol wagon?" Step 4: "Do you want to be carried?" If the answer to the last question is yes, the C.D. man warns: "The additional charge of resisting arrest will be placed against you." After the demonstration ends, the entire squad musters for selfcriticism...
...house she is spoken of as a member of the family. In addition to admiration and respect for her culinary abilities, we just plain love her. I was cooking family meals for 20 years "before Julia"; "since Julia" meals are as superior as a jet to a covered wagon...