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Show THE STORY OF JACKIE 0: YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COYER! "Jackie Kennedy was like a sister to me and neither time nor distance can erase the memories of the years we shared together. I wish her happiness and all good things. I cannot express how much she has enriched my life by letting me put one foot in Camelot." With those word's, Mary many of the realities revealed are more than just startling. According to Mrs. Gallagher, Mrs. Kennedy spent more money on horses than on her children and more time in bed than attending to stately, wifely wife-ly and motherly duties. In trying try-ing to explain why Jackie's way of living contrasted so greatly with the average American Ameri-can housewife and mother, Mrs. Gallagher says, "I can only explain it one way . . . she was born and groomed to a queenly role." Readers will also find the now-famous disclosures of the former First Lady's $40,000-a-year clothing bills, hand-ironed stockings, constant kitchen turnover and stinginess in salaries. sala-ries. In the constant tug-of-war between President and First Lady over her astronomical bills, John Kennedy is pictured as the typical ail-American husband, hus-band, which will seem familiar to every married reader. "It really isn't a nasty book" says the silver-haired Mrs. Gallagher, who pictured her former boss as aloof, extravagant, extrava-gant, selfish, but sometimes charming. "If I had not written this," she further states, "history "his-tory would be denied." "My Life With Jacqueline Kennedy" is the inside story about the real Jackie, now Mrs. Aristotle Onassis. If your local store is sold out of the new paperback, you can get your copy direct from the publishers: publish-ers: Paperback Library, Dept. N.A., 315 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10010. Did the author do right? Did she betray a trust by "telling it like it was?" Or, did she perform per-form a service for history? You be the judge. Mary Barelli Gallagher Barelli Gallagher personal secretary to the former First Lady ended her know-it-all, tell-it-all best seller, "My Life With Jacqueline Kennedy." Now, this book that made headlines all around the world and had everybody talking is available in paperback form, wherever paperbacks are sold. Mrs. Gallagher feJt compelled to write this soul-searching and intimate revelation of life with the Kennedy's-Hivho she knew and worked for from 1953 until 1964 to dispel the myth that has grown up around them; to identify them as quite real, flesh-and-blood human beings with faults as well as virtues. As a result, |
