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Cried the head of the Kennedy clan to his second son: "It's the best organization job I've ever seen in politics...
...Clan, as every starlet knows (TIME, June 22, 1959), is led by Frank Sinatra and includes, among others, such neon lights as the Tony Curtises, the Milton Berles, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and the Judy Garlands. Before it climbed to political eminence through marriage (Pee-tah's to Jack's sister Pat), The Clan was known principally as a close-knit group of rigid nonconformists, with trib al rites characterized by copycat habits (members tend to use the same agents, the same make of car, etc.). Their clannishness, in fact, is strangely similar to that of the Kennedy...
...sake of appearances. The Clan last week behaved with admirable propriety. Frankie wore his hairpiece, snarled at not more than one photographer, and offered to sing a solo at the convention (offer declined). Pee-tah wore conservative grey suits and tried not to be conspicuous (Den Mother Shirley MacLaine, a kook in her own right, was for Adlai, so she did not count). Naturally, there were gala parties. Frankie sang new words to All the Way: May I be emphatic? I'm Italian Democratic- All the way. I know it sounds cutting, But we've had enough...
...year ago the Phipps clan opened up the estate to the public, but it was the energetic sportswoman and socialite, Mrs. Ogden Phipps, wife of one of John Phipps's nephews, who got the idea for an exhibit of 150 years of American sculpture. She assembled a formidable committee of artists and museum experts, soon had the gardens populated with 89 pieces which seemed to take on new life in their outdoor setting. Last week Mrs. Phipps announced that the show had become so popular that it would stay open an extra month until the end of August...
...dwellings resembling the Italian campanile, and the status symbol of the day was to have the highest tower. It was also a key vantage point from which to rain down rocks on an enemy neighbor's marble roof. As soon as one member of a family was killed, clan warfare was declared, with the towers as citadels. When gunpowder was introduced, cannon fired away at point-blank range across the narrow streets, and not a move could be made by day without a fusillade of gunshots. Food and ammunition were smuggled into the towers by night, and since...