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...Brian wasn't around much. She knows a few Irish songs, can dance an old Irish Mourning Jig, and doesn't like to cooperate when Bernstein, over-eager for the facts, asks her to spell things for him. For all Bridey's pleasantness, however, she is selling, the jacket notes, on "an unusual 12-inch long-playing record . . . available at record shops anywhere...
Rusticated for trying to hurl a don into a pond, 22-year-old President Frederic Carl Granville Bradley of the Claret Club of Trinity College, Oxford explained to the A.P. the steps that led up to the fateful incident: 1) "We put on our club dress-the blue dinner jacket with the red facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took...
...gesture to show that he expects no violence, Kubitschek plans to send back to other duties the plainclothes detail assigned to guard him. "I rely on this more than any bodyguard." he told a friend, patting a German-made .25-caliber automatic hidden beneath his well-tailored jacket...
...Great Picture. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower stepped into the Sheraton-Park's ballroom at 9:55 p.m., Ike in a dinner jacket with white carnation, Mamie radiant in a lavender cocktail dress, wearing a single strand of pearls and earrings with the word "Ike" printed on each. Ike raised both arms in familiar salute to the crowd, then went with Mamie to a table, where they sat sipping ice water and watching the movie-sized television screen. As the TV program began, a single spotlight centered on the Eisenhowers, forcing the President to shield his eyes with...
Seeing Nelly Home. In Buenos Aires, the newspaper Critica dismissed Perón's threats with a question: "Hasn't Panama measured him for a strait jacket yet?" President Pedro Aramburu and his advisers seemed to sense that madman talk by Perón, who is still revered by millions of diehard Peronistas, provided a tailor-made chance to draw a contrast between the erratic ex-dictator and the sober new regime. The government made three moves that sharpened the impression...