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Singing Kings. Short of moving midnight Mass at St. Patrick's into prime time, the easy out on the variety hours is to light a yule log and invite the family for a singalong. Not to be outdone by Andy Williams, who featured his wife, two children and 38 relatives on his show, last week Dean Martin turned the cameras on his wife and seven children as well as Frank Sinatra and his clan (Mia was conspicuously absent). But for sheer numbers, no one can outdo the singing King Family, who last week turned out 45 strong for their...
...December issue, Ramparts magazine has put some fire on its cover, but what's burning is not exactly yule logs. Three Ramparts editors and the art director are holding aloft their burning draft cards in a kind of New Left salute. Inside, Editor Warren Hinckle III writes: "If you're looking for an editorial in the usual place this month, forget it. It's on the cover...
...selling so fast stores can't keep them in stock. Paper silver-foil dresses, priced at $7 and $10, are even more popular in small towns than they are in the big cities. Luminescent gigantism in earrings has reached the stage where girls are turning themselves into Yule trees, dangling oversize baubles, including some with flashlight batteries that turn on and off. There is hardly a hostess going who is not somewhere aglow or aglitter...
...Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. In his honor the White House invited a spirited, varied list of 140 guests, ranging from Dean Acheson to Gene Autry, George Meany to Thomas Dewey. By candlelight in the evergreen-decked state dining room, they feasted on roast duckling, Bibb lettuce salad, lobster imperial and "Yule log" dessert (chocolate cake coated with mocha butter)-the last culinary triumph of White House Chef René Verdon, a Kennedy find who heatedly gave notice a week before the party that he was leaving...
Those with the means may still gather the family round and take them along. But mostly the Yule flood is made up of "singles" and couples who look on home as only a place to sleep between working hours but not to spend holidays in. And they are packing the islands right up to the high-water mark. Pan American increased its seats to and from the Caribbean by 41% this year (to 26,000 a week), but so many people are there now that no seats are available coming back before Jan. 10. Late bookers found BOAC...