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...around in skin suits carrying clubs." Usually he does better. Unlike Watt, the President generally prefers humor to comedy, humor being the warmer and more companionable exercise. Comedy cuts off human feeling, humor thrives on it, especially on self-deprecation. "I know your organization was founded by six Washington newspaperwomen in 1919," the President told the Washington Press Club in 1981. Pausing like Jack Benny, he added: "It seems like only yesterday." Yet he uses comedy too. Once in New York he delivered a fine line at a ceremony involving the Westway highway project, apologizing to the crowd that James...
Attending a dinner at Washington's National Press Club, Ronald Reagan loosed a string of his patented one-liners. "I know your organization was founded by six Washington newspaperwomen in 1919 ... Seems only yesterday." The President then quoted Jefferson. "He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task," observed Reagan. "And ever since he told me that..." The California difference? "In Washington the flakes are real. And if enough of them fall from heaven, it stops traffic for hours." The President, who turned...
...arrogance and condescension that make that famous nonperson's behavior explicable. So is Jane Alexander as the edgy mouse of a bookkeeper whom Bernstein persuades to talk about the slush fund at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Penny Fuller and Lindsay Anne Grouse appear as newspaperwomen who help out with leads at key moments?the former dizzily, the latter with touching reluctance to betray a lost love...
...teatime, the black family limousine rolled up to the White House portal, and a tanned Mamie Eisenhower, in a mottled print dress, alighted for her first homecoming in a year and a day. "Hello, Bruce," said the former First Lady to the doorman. She hailed a covey of capital newspaperwomen, then shook hands with her hostess Jackie, ashimmer in a green shantung sheath. After a peek at the refurbished Red Room, Mamie sat down in the Oval Room over raspberry tarts and tea with seven other senior leaguers working on a $30 million drive for the National Culture Center, hopefully...
...picture of a lot of scratching, much of it useless, accompanied by considerable clucking. (Maybe women do talk a lot, but I know newspapermen who do most of the talking in an interview, too.) In a small survey conducted by myself (and therefore not authoritative), I found no newspaperwomen who liked being called newshens...