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...late President and his widow, together, for they have done more for our country than most of us can comprehend...
Last week, mixing solid business with image-making busyness, Man-in-Motion Johnson was in top form. Although the widow of New York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops and uncounted federal agents maintained the tightest security precautions in memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote...
...political career has been particularly turbulent in the last year, reportedly must appear in court in New York the same day he had planned to speak to the Young Democrats. Last April, Powell was ordered by the New York Supreme Court to pay Mrs. Esther James, a New York widow, $211,500 for calling her a "bag woman," or a collector of graft, during a televised campaign speech. His court appearance is allegedly connected with this case...
...Congress also voted Jackie free office space for six to twelve months, the difference to be resolved by a conference committee, as well as continued Secret Service protection and $50,000 to help pay her personal staff. Following past practice, she will receive a $10,000-a-year widow's pension and free use of the mails for life...
...gloated: "Now I can say I kissed the Governor of California." He was once married to Margaret Leighton (they played opposite each other in As You Like It). Now Harvey lives in the $1,000,000 Beverly Hills hut of blonde and sumptuous Joan Cohn, 42-year-old widow of Harry Cohn, the onetime king of Columbia Pictures. Inside this off-white, Louis XV lair, Harvey whispers apologetically to visitors, "This isn't really my taste. It isn't really...