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...groom safely off on the first leg of their honeymoon, the Queen showed up at Lady Elizabeth Shakerley's "do" at Claridge's and danced to Lester Lanin, while her sister Princess Margaret arranged a couple of chairs, put up her feet and, according to a waiter, "had a good rest." It also shows why Princess Anne could have appeared the next day at a Royal Navy ceremonial and apologized: "Please excuse me if I sound somewhat different today, but I am suffering from a hangover after a very enjoyable wedding-but it is a lot less painful...
...class officer, honor roll regular. He dropped in and out of Fairfield (Conn.) University for a couple of years and then held odd jobs close to home. "He was trying to get his act together," says his brother Nimar. Recently a family friend in Washington, D.C., offered him a waiter's job. One morning he boarded a bus for New York City on his way to Washington. Says Nimar: "Before he left he said, 'How great it is to be a human being...
...Texas sharecropper, Bradley moved West with his parents at age seven in a used Model T. His father struggled to support the family as a waiter and railroad porter and eventually separated from his wife. During the Depression the Bradleys had to accept public assistance, in those days the equivalent of welfare. A gifted runner, the 6-ft. 4-in. Bradley won an athletic scholarship to U.C.L.A. but quit school to join the city police department. After 21 years on the force, he used the law degree he had earned at night to start a practice. In 1969, following...
...seemed to be the prevailing attitude, recalls one person involved. One faction favored an invitation to Pierre Trudeau, noting that this June would mark 25 years since the Canadian Prime Minister received his M.A. in government from Harvard in 1946. Other suggestions included Oriana Fallaci, Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter, Waiter Mondale, Howard Baker and numerous others. (Henry Cisneros, the Kennedy School alumnus recently elected mayor of San Antonio, ultimately was invited and "would have loved to come," Vicki Smith, associate director of the senior executive fellows program, said last week, but couldn't make it because of a city council...
...Danny Aiello), the father, is a low-paid waiter and loudmouthed gambler who dreams of hitting the numbers big so that he can run away with his popsy (Ellen March). The domineering mother Enid (Beatrice Arthur) has a tongue with the sting of a killer bee. The 17-year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid...