Show WHO is NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK mrs joseph P sr N I 1 kennedy has been an effective social and political ally of both her father former mayor of boston and her husband am mrs kennedy cassador bas to the aids father court of st and husband james but the news that in accordance cor dance with her husbands decision she presented only seven american women at court is one of her rare appearances in the headlines the 11 engaging kennedys Kenn edys ha have been viewed more or less en bloc in in the news and mrs kennedy has never been in a very sharp lens focus she was one of the prettiest of boston debutantes 30 years ago a rollicking girl with black hair and eyes of irish blue back home from her convent training she taught her father sweet adeline he was john F honey fitz fitzgerald and in his campaigns he sang his way to memorable political fame riding like a surfboard the long lingering swipes of the song taught him by his daughter the flower of his heart joseph P kennedy her childhood playmate was twenty five years old when they were fortune and married in 1914 family grew he borrowed 2 for a down up together payment on a house their fortunes grew as their family with mr kennedy president of a bank in a year or two after their marriage mrs kennedy once told a boston dry goods clerk that she bought suits and dresses a year it takes a heap of shopping to make a home like the kennedys Kenn edys and she became known among her friends as a paragon of household efficiency comparable to the one in solomons offhand apostrophe to such skills and virtues now she is mistress of the castle which was once 3 pierpont morgans home also of a beautiful mansion in bronx ville N T Y a huge summer estate at hyannisport Hyannis port cape cod and a villa at palm beach built by one of the wanamakers Wana makers she is slender and girlish comely and vivacious weighs pounds and takes size 14 u rj has diamond in dresses viona potentate net makes her might envy gowns and she is envied by other women for her magnificent 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 holding them to restraint in regime and dress even without all these adventitious fixings say her friends she would be an admirable ambassadors wife with her own quite adequate equipment of tact charm and intelligence MAN f AN and boy this journeyman iv 1 has helped process a lot of explorers and ad adventurers adventure ventur ers copy through the news mill if it was ghost written it had only slick and synthetic excitement like ersatz pastry and if it it was usually dull happily in contrast are the doubtlessly authentic and personally written yarns of W H tilman leader of the british mount everest expedition now getting under way these stories from the tibetan base camp have a professional ease and fluency along yarns from with a ring of in i n mt everest w which h i h ring true gives assurance that mr tilman is really writing them there is no ghost on the job here mr tilman is thirty nine years old a keen faced hard muscled of medium stature he has climbed mountains in the alps and in africa including mounts kenya kilimanjaro and Ruven zori this is his fifth expedition to the himalayas the entrants in this high hurdle event are not youngsters N E odell is forty seven F S smythie is thirty seven and the others are all over thirty 0 consolidated news features service |