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...year terms as Overseers are Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.); Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College; Lewis Thomas, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Leo Goldberg '34, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory...
Because Hays was carrying on with his Ohio-based secretary, Pat Peak, whom he visited weekly and finally married last April, many of his staffers did not figure that he was also dallying with Liz. They simply concluded that he was passing her round to his friends in Congress in return for political favors. Yet Hays did not try to give the impression that he was celibate when in the capital. Most mornings, a former aide says, he would brag to his staff of his purported conquests of the night before...
...office phone). She says they had sex at her apartment once or twice a week. "He favored Monday or Tuesday, and I wasn't free to sneak in anyone else until he went home to Ohio on Thursdays." During this period Hays also had a liaison with Pat Peak, his longtime secretary in his home office in Flushing, Ohio...
...chose to tell her story after Hays decided to marry Pat Peak and did not invite her. "I was good enough to be his mistress for two years but not good enough to be invited to his wedding," she pouted. To make matters worse, "I was hoping after the marriage he wouldn't make so many demands. But I've had to see him four times since the wedding-twice intimately...
...time of ready-to-wear, mass-produced clothes, the kimono of old Japan seems a fabled anachronism, like phoenix feathers. In the Edo period, for example, between the early 17th and middle 19th centuries, the art of designing and dyeing those full-sleeved, sashed garments reached its peak. Fortunes were expended on kimono by merchants and nobles, whose wives might, on formal occasions, wear 20 layers of shimmering robes. Since the 8th century they have been the stuff of poetry...