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Later in the week, Jackie let reporters and still photographers in for their first look at how she has redone the regal Red Room, long used for receptions before state dinners and now used mainly for ladies' teas. Its walls and silk draperies are a bright magenta trimmed in gold, setting off the portraits of eleven past U.S. Presidents. Thomas Jefferson has the place of honor over the mantel, taking the place of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and her pet collie...
...wife Haru has an East-meets-West background that complements Reischauer's. Her mother was born in the U.S., where Haru's grandfather lived for 60 years and made his fortune as a silk trader. On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Prime Minister (1891-92, 1896-97). After attending Principia College in Elsah, Ill., Haru returned to Japan, after the war became a correspondent for U.S. magazines...
...Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had gambled more than $400,000 that Cleveland has a fake. New Year's guests at Getty's Sutton Place mansion near London saw, on a wall of pale green silk, an 8-ft. by 6-ft. canvas that Getty said was the real Diana and Her Nymphs. And it is generally acknowledged that Rubens never painted the same subject twice...
Jackie Kennedy refuses to be falsely humble. She wore her apricot dress and coat of silk and linen to speak to farmers in a Venezuelan barnyard. She declines to honor all the petty requests that pour into the White House, ignores most of the President's political rallies, turns down invitations from women's groups who are constantly nagging her for an appearance. She water-skis, rides, plays golf, and yet remains an attentive mother to her children...
...words-calling for the "depigeonization" of Paris statues instead of the "decolonization" of French African territories. In the last six weeks, a book called The Court has sold 80,000 copies: it pictures De Gaulle as a bewigged monarch with a king-sized ego lording it over silk-stockinged, fawning courtiers...