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Returning to Newport last week, the Kennedys went all out in their vacationing. There were daily luncheon cruises aboard the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. The Honey Fitz anchored in quiet coves while a Secret Service powerboat hove alongside to speed Jackie through aquatic variations on a single water ski. Once ex-Navy Lieutenant John Kennedy spied the Navy frigate, Willis A. Lee, steaming past, signaled it to stop so the Honey Fitz could come up for a close presidential look...
...stag luncheon in a Brooklyn restaurant last week, Abraham M. Lindenbaum, a member of the New York City Planning Commission, rose up over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered...
...Good. At a National Press Club luncheon, Preminger got a standing ovation usually reserved for potentates from lands other than Hollywood, and he took it in his usual snide. The audience called on Actor Laughton to display his Southern drawl, newly acquired after a careful study of the delivery of Mississippi's real-life Senator John Stennis. Preminger vetoed it. "Meester Laughton," said he, "vill not do it because I vill not allow it." He also ignored the suggestion that the theme of Advise and Consent might evoke a questionable image of the U.S. abroad. He has prudently eliminated...
Courses at the luncheon hour are, of course, an absurdity...
...paper. Gradually it becomes clear what is troubling Franny; she suffers, like Holden Caulfield, from an intense weariness of all that is phony, from an oversensitivity to the world. She is sick of all the egos madly dancing around her?at school, in her summer theater, at the luncheon table at which Lane Coutell is dissecting Flaubert along with his frogs' legs. To escape, Franny has seized on a religious classic called The Way of a Pilgrim, in which an anonymous Russian peasant tells how he roamed the land first learning, and then teaching, the Jesus Prayer. " 'Lord Jesus Christ...