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Steaks at Home. President and Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy's sister and brother-in-law, the Princess and Prince Radziwill. attended 12 o'clock Mass at the Middleburg Community Center on Sunday. The President arrived by helicopter just before Mass. There was at least double the usual congregation, but only about 50 people waited to see them emerge. Most of these were local good Methodists and Baptists who were already out of their own churches. There were no Episcopalians hanging around...
...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...
...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...
...gatehouse, followed by about ten other cars. She was stopped, naturally, and everybody had to start backing (the country road past the entrance to Glen Ora is definitely one way). The tourist approach will probably change as the weather improves. Virginia's Historic Garden Week and the Middleburg Races in April bring a flush of tourists, even in normal times. These will, undoubtedly, wend their way to Glen Ora, but all they'll see will be the gatehouse entrance, the top of the roof of the main house, and a couple of miles of tortured stone walls...
There has been, naturally, interest shown in real estate around Middleburg since the First Family's occupation, but there are few additional places on the market. There is little temptation among millionaires to sell for a quick buck. They came for fox hunting and horse breeding, and do not intend leaving. Their feeling is that everything will be back to normal in four years...