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After her first Monday's hunt, she was invited to cook steaks over the living-room fire at the home of her neighbor. Paul Fout, who sells hunters and rides amateur races. Other guests included Nelson ("Monk") Noland of Warrenton, who owns the Fauquier Laundry; James (Jim) Wiley of Middleburg, who breeds and raises thoroughbreds at Benton Farm near Middleburg; and Mrs. Magalen Crane of The Plains, who hunts with Orange County...
Monk Noland says that he used to squire Jackie around. Jim Wiley is a drawly Virginian, and sells his yearlings at Saratoga for enormous prices. Eve Fout was skiing in Switzerland at the time of the steak roast, but has since returned. She is, probably, Mrs. Kennedy's closest friend down here. Eve paints and sells traditional horse pictures, shows horses, and is one of the district commissioners of the Orange County-Middleburg U.S. Pony Club, into which Caroline will no doubt be absorbed...
...faculty for its stand last week, one professor snorted: "If they're serious about telling the university what the faculty has a right to say, they can have their university without two-thirds of its faculty." At Mercer University in Macon, Emory University History Professor Bell Ervin Wiley, lecturing on Robert E. Lee, said: "It is inconceivable that Lee, if he were alive today, would advocate resistance to national authority or in any way abet social turmoil or racial hatred...
...after the Senate voted for condemnation, Kennedy pleaded that he had been critically ill at the time, as he was. But there was time to let his sentiments be known, and no need to have been one of two Senators to go unrecorded. (The other: Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, McCarthy's colleague.) Finally, taxed by Eleanor Roosevelt for his silence, he announced that he had intended to vote for condemnation-on the technical ground that McCarthy had offended the dignity of the Senate...
...CATHOLIC ISSUE. Time and again Johnson told with all-out vibrato the story of the death, in a World War II bomber explosion, of Jack Kennedy's brother Joe and his copilot, Lieut. Wilford J. Wiley of Fort Worth. Cried Lyndon hoarsely: "When those boys went out to die so that you could live, nobody asked them what church they went...