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Even if Clinton had planned his vacation in a more organized and less comic fashion -- if he had lined up that condo on Hilton Head Island in March -- he would not have taken full advantage of the opportunity an August progress can provide. When columnist Stewart Alsop visited Lyndon Johnson at the L.B.J. Ranch while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later...
Aware that his former partner Cagliari killed himself after being told he could not leave jail while the investigation into his misdeeds proceeded, Gardini apparently decided not to endure a similar imprisonment. "He was a fighter and he had tremendous pride," says one of his friends, author and columnist Enzo Biagi. "Most of all he valued his freedom." On the morning of July 23 Gardini woke at 7 a.m., took a shower and scanned the newspaper headlines. One read: GAROFANO ACCUSES GARDINI. Next to the bed where he killed himself, he left a one-word note to his family...
Mudge's diagnosis has been criticized by local doctors and the press. Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy tore into Mudge in a front page column Wednesday for the doctor's diagnosis and his smug demeanor during a press conference to discuss Lewis' condition...
...this latest one takes the cake. It's a pill that makes you thinner not by suppressing appetite or speeding up metabolism but by preventing fat from entering the bloodstream (and the hips, the belly and the buttocks), one greasy molecule at a time. Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist, calls it the new "dream drug." The Times of London, which should know better, pronounced it a "pain-free pill that allows us to stay slim for life while eating what we like...
Reno comes from a long line of memorable women. "Mother's mother and Father's mother were absolutely indomitable," says Janet's brother Robert Reno, a New York Newsday columnist. "All the women in the family were. The men were strong too. They just had no talent for marrying spineless women." Janet's maternal grandmother Daisy Sloan Hunter Wood was a genteel Southern lady who lost her own mother and two sisters to tuberculosis and instilled in her children and grandchildren a passionate commitment to duty and family. In World War II, daughter Daisy became a nurse, landing with General...