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...flying well in the center of the northern corridor to Hamburg, spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring 200 ft. off the airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could see him," said Pan Am Captain Tony Duff. When Duff's plane entered a convenient layer of stratus cloud, the MIG peeled off and vanished, but the maneuver was an obvious hint of what could come...
...presidential yacht PatrickJ .; the identity of his companions was kept secret. He watched two movies, Tiger Bay and Expresso Bongo, in the White House projection room. And still another night he ordered up a batch of mystery novels for his bedtime reading (the President also recently reread Alfred Duff Cooper's Talleyrand, and declared to friends: "It's a great book"). Finally, at week's end, he flew back to Hyannisport for a few hours with his family...
...MARILYN DUFF...
...Grundy was a key man in political backrooms as far back as 1920 when he helped wangle Harding's nomination, remained powerful until he quit politics at 84 in 1947, and lived to see his machine destroyed in 1950 in a bitter wrangle with liberal Republican Governor James Duff...
...grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots...