| Show WHO'S NEWS THIS b WEEK By LEMUEL F F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK YORK Mrs Mrs Joseph p P. P I Kennedy has been an effective social and political ally of both her her- father former mayor of Boston and her husband am- am Mrs Kennedy to the Aids Father Court of Stand St St. and Husband James But the news that in accordance accordance accordance ac ac- ac- ac with her husbands husband's decision decision deci deci- sion she presented only seven American women at court is one of her rare appearances in the head head- lines The 11 engaging Kennedys have been viewed more or less en bloc inthe in inthe inthe the news and Mrs Kennedy has never been in a very sharp lens focus She was one of the prettiest t of Boston debutantes 30 years ago a rollicking girl with blackhair black blackhair hair and eyes of of Irish blue Back home from her convent training she taught her father Sweet Adeline He was John F. F Honey Fitz Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Fitz Fitz- gerald and in his campaigns he sang his way to memorable political fame riding fame riding like a surfboard the thelong thelong thelong long lingering swipes of the song taught him by his daughter daughter the the flower of his heart Joseph P P. P Kennedy her childhood playmate was twenty-five twenty years old when they were Fortune and married in 1914 Family Grew He borrowed 2 00 for a n down Up up i Together payment on a 6 6 ti house Their fortunes grew as their family with Mr Kennedy president of a bank in hi a year or two after their marriage Mrs Kennedy once told a Boston clerk that fuat she bought suits and dresses a year It takes a heap of shopping to make a home like the Kennedys' Kennedys and she bec became me known among her friends as a paragon paragon para para- gon of ot household efficiency comparable comparable comparable com com- parable to the one in Solomons Solomon's offhand offhand offhand off off- hand apostrophe to such skills and virtues Now she Is mistress of the castle which was once J. J Pierpont Morgans Morgan's home also of a beautiful mansion in Bronx Bronx- yule N. N Y a huge summer es estate estate es es- tate at Hyannisport Cape Cod and a villa at Palm Beach built by one of ot the Wanamakers She is slender and girlish comely and vivacious weighs pounds and takes size 14 Has Diamond in n dresses Viona Vion- Vion a Potentate net makes her hr Might Envy gowns gO and she is ise 0 e envied by other women for her magnificent jewels jewels- notable among them being a ruby and diamond bracelet which it is said is matched only by the one the Aga Khan gave his princess But she never lets the children run to unseemly display hol hold big ing them to restraint in regime and dress Even without all these adventitious fixings say her friends she would be an admirable admirable admirable ad ad- mirable ambassadors ambassador's wife wire with her own quite adequate equipment equipment equip equip- ment of tact tac charm and intelli Intelli- gence MAN AN and boy this journeyman has helped process a lot ol of explorers' explorers and adventurers' adventurers copy through the fue news mill If It was written ghost-written it had only slick and synthetic excitement like Ersatz pastry and if it wasn't it was usually usually ally any dull Happily in hi contrast are the doubtlessly authentic and per per- written yarns of W. W H. H Tilman Tilman Tilman Til- Til man leader of ot the British Mount Everest expedition now getting under tinder under un un- r der derway way These stories from the Tibetan base camp have a professional ease and fluency along Yarns From with a ring of in- in Mt Everest w which vh h I c h Ring True gIves assurance 0 that Mr Tilman is really r-eally writing them There is no I ghost on the Job here her I Mr Tilman is thirty-nine thirty years old a keen-faced keen muscled hard-muscled of medium stature who has been exploring ever since he left college He has climbed mountains in the fue Alps and In Africa including Mounts including Mounts Kenya Kilimanjaro and This his Is his fifth expedition to the fue H Himalayas The entrants in tills this high hurdle event are not young young- N N. E. E Oden Odell is seven forty-seven F F. F S. S is thirty-seven thirty and the others are all over thirty 0 Consolidated News Features Service |
