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Jackie made the most of Lester Lanin's music. To the tune of Never on Sunday, she tripped a nimble fox trot with the Colombian ambassador; while she was dancing with France's Ambassador Alphand, Millionaire Charles Wrightsman, a Palm Beach neighbor, cut in. President Kennedy proved more of a wanderer than a dancer; he frequently left the presidential table to greet and joke with guests. Totally relaxed, he seemed solemn only once, during a ten-minute chat with Brother Bobby, presumably about the crisis in Mississippi. He was coaxed onto the floor twice, dancing with his sister...
...that the wife of Senator Jack Kennedy began buying some of their clothes. Two years ago, they moved out to a new place of their own on Park Avenue. Jackie moved with them, and so did such customers as Mrs. William Paley, Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Mrs. Douglas Dillon and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper...
...newly garment-conscious District of Columbia, the New York Couture Group again crowned Jacqueline Kennedy as the best-dressed woman in the world, and for the first time welcomed into its top twelve her sister. Princess Stanislas Radziwill, and her Palm Beach-Manhattan shopping consort, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. Among repeaters from last year was Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who moved a lovely leg up a rung toward the poll's Fashion Hall of Fame-the Olympus of three-time win ners entered last week by boyishly elegant Actress Audrey Hepburn and Mrs. Norman Winston, the part Cherokee Indian...
...likely have dismissed it as too farfetched even for Hercule Poirot to solve. For one thing, the Goya portrait of the first Duke of Wellington was just about the most-talked-about painting in Britain. It had made big headlines earlier in the summer, when U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought it for a whopping $392,000 from the Duke and Duchess of Leeds. Indignant cries went up about national treasures leaving the country, and a private foundation and Her Majesty's government raised $392,000 to buy the painting back for London's National Gallery...
...portrait of the Duke of Wellington was painted by a foreigner -Spanish fellow by the name of Goya-and caught the duke just as he looked the day after his victory at Salamanca in 1812. Britain thus regards the portrait as a national treasure. When U.S. Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman bought the Duke of Wellington at auction (TIME. June 23). Britain-firsters of all kinds raised pained howls of protest. Collector Wrightsman thereupon offered to sell it to London's National Gallery at cost-the $392,000 that he had paid for it. Last week. Chancellor of the Exchequer...